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Julia

 

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Alaric Alexander Watts : A Woman's Farewell. Adapted to an Air by Mozart

'Farewell to...' 'Fare thee well! Tis meet we part, /...' 'July 6th 1835/Julia'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia      Print: Unknown

  

Mary Tighe : Sonnet Addressed To My Mother

'To My Mother' 'Oh! Thou whose tender smile most partially/...'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia      Print: Unknown

  

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Destruction of Sennacherib

'On the Destruction of Semnacherib/ By Byron'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia      Print: Unknown

  

Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama OR 'Love'

'They sin who tell us Love candie/...' [16 lines] 'Southey'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia      Print: Unknown

  

James Montgomery : A Riddle

'A Riddle/which every reader may solve for herself/but none to another' 'I know not who these lines may see/I know not what these lines will be' [ll. 1-2]

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia      Print: Unknown

  

George Gordon, Lord Byron : From the Turkish [The Chain I Gave]

'From Byron' 'The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View.../'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia      Print: Unknown

  

Thomas Haynes Bayly : Deck Not With Gems

'"Deck not with Gems"' 'Deck not with gems that lovely form forme/...'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia      Print: Unknown

  

Anthony Trollope : Last Chronicle of Barset

J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing      Print: Book

  

Samuel Johnson : Prayers and Meditations [?]

J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing      Print: Book

  

Edward Meyrick Goulburn : An Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Holy Scriptures

J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing      Print: Book

  

Drew : [unknown]

J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew'

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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing      

  

[n/a] : Good Words

J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Rowland Elliott [?] : Tracts for the Times

J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing      Print: Book

  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would be the case- but on the contrary I have met with nothing for a long time that pleased me half so well, or that has suggested to me so many profitable trains of thought-'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [first reading]

'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Perhaps she will be writing short stories by your return!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Unknown

  

Herbert George Wells : Outline of History, The

'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on Amenhotep IV who she declares is a lidie with two heads'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the morning with a newspaper & thinks no one is noticing her, she prattles on about B for Bodog's; P for Piggy & points to the right letters.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Newspaper

  

Esther Julia Ford : [a short story]

'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience. Perhaps one day when she had had experience. And she supposed no-one would print her silly story. And she went and read it to Fannie, and then to Mlle Renee and at last she let me see it and explained that it would look much better when she had made a clean copy.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Ford Madox Ford : Great Trade Route, The

'I've just received "The Great Trade Route" this morning, and there's a gentleman on the cover who tells me that it is "bland, ironic humurous [sic] discursive, always amusing, throughly convincing" & I've been trying to find the place where I left off in the proofs but have just realized how futile such a search is & have gone back to the beginning.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Book

  

Ford Madox Ford : March of Literature, The

'I am loving your book [The March of Literature]: in fact I'm enjoying it even more than Great Trade Route. I do hope it's doing as well as it deserves'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Book

 

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