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John Gibson Lockhart : Life of Scott
' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quaker, he abhorred -- "and for many hours every day ... to all ten volumes ... he listened in the last winter of his life."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mariabella Fry Print: Book
Elizabeth Inchbald : A Simple Story
"I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a critic, that I might write to Mrs Inchbald about it; but I was so carried away by it that I was totally incapable of thinking of Mrs Inchbald or anything but Miss Milner and Doriforth, who appeared as real persons... I think it the most pathetic and the most powerfully interesting tale I ever read."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Elizabeth Hamilton : The Cottages of Glenburnie
"This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you will like as well as I do. I think it will do a vast deal of good to you, and besides it is extremely interesting, which all good books are not: it has great powers, both comic and tragic."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Memoirs
"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present to your servant Richard."
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Germaine De Stael : Corinne
"I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the taste and critical judgement of Italian literature displayed throughout the work. ... My father acknowledges he never read anything more pathetic."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Sir William Jones : Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from various publications consisting of translations, fugitive pieces
then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellany. the metaphysical poetry of India, however, it is not to my taste."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Sargent : The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (The vision of Stonehenge and Mary Queen of Scots)
"I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot live five minutes longer without it? ... Observe, I think the poem as a drama, tiresome in the extreme, and absurd, but I wish you to see the very letters from the man in the quick silver mine which you recommended to me have been seized upon by a poet of no inferior genius. Some of the strophes of the fairies are most beautifullly poetic."
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire
'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much prejudiced against the whole by the first lines I opened upon about the 'paralytic muse' of the man who had been his guardian and is his relation and to whom he had dedicated his first poems, that I could not relish his wit. He may have great talents, but I am sure he has neither a great not good mind; and I feel dislike and disgust for his Lordship.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Wilkins : Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language
?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkins?s Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language. It is a scarce and very ingenious book; some of the phraseology is so much out of the present fashion, that it would make you smile; such as the synonym for a little man, a Dandiprat. Likewise, two prints, one of them a long sheet of men with their throats cut, so as to show the wind pipe whilst working out the different letters of the alphabet. The other print of all the birds and beasts packed ready to go to the ark?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
William Nicholson : The First Principles of Chemistry
?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; there is soap made, and making from a recipe in Nicholson?s Chemistry; there is excellent ink made, and to be made by the same book.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Charles-Louis Montesquieu : Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence
?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishes so much food for thought, it shows how history may be studied for the advantage of mankind, not for the mere purpose of remembering facts and reporting them.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Jean Racine : Andromache
?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in England as the Distressed Mother.) Madame Talma played Andromache and her husband Orestes. .. We read the play in the morning, an excellent precaution, otherwise the novelty of the French mode of declamation would have set my comprehension at defiance.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
James Granger : A Biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution
?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England, who drew a mill, a miller, a bridge, a man and a horse going over the bridge with a sack of corn, all visible, upon a surface that would just cover a sixpence.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Charles Robert Dallas : History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone...
?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, and shall not produce it until it is finished. I found the first hint of it in the strangest place that anybody could invent, for it was in Dallas?s History of the Maroons, and you may read the book to find out, and ten to one you miss it. ? pray read the book, for it is extremely interesting and entertaining.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Maxmillian de Bethune Sully : Memoirs
?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or a palace, and I fancied it was somewhere in the middle of Paris. On the contrary, it is quite in the suburbs.?
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories
?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.?
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) : Mademoiselle de Clermont
?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more interesting to us by having just read the beautiful tale by Madame de Genlis ?Mademoiselle de Clermont?; it would delight my dear Aunt Mary, it is to be had in the first volume of the Petits Romans??
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Breton : Voyage dans les Pays Bas
?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s Petits Romans. I never read a more pathetic and finely written tale.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Berquin : Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instruction and entertainment of children
?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame Gautier, gains upon our esteem every day.?
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures which is never repeated in life.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere : Memoirs
'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying of a fit of the gout translated to his chest, you have done her injustice. We think some of her Memoirs beautifully written and like Rousseau; she was a great woman and died heroically. I think if I had been Mons Roland I should not have shot myself for her sake.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Kalidasa : Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama
'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive sphere. As his eyes are to be continually fixed upon the point of his nose, hers in duteous sympathy must squint in like manner; and if the perfection of his virtue be to sit so still that the birds (vide Sacontala) may unmolested build nests in his hair, his wife cannot better show her affection than by yielding her tresses to them with similar patient stupidity.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
: Letter from sister
Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your description of an imaginary shipwreck, I was reading & feeling the effects of a real one, having then received a letter from my sister giving me an account of the vessel in which she had sent my box, being stranded on the coast of Devonshire ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Branwell Manuscript: Letter
: science books
'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Book
: medical journals
'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Serial / periodical
: The Bible
'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Book
William Shakespeare :
'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick Print: Book
: poem on family Bible
"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The first was about a family Bible, the last line of each stanza being 'The old-fashioned Bible that lay on the stand'; the second was Felicia Hemans's 'The Better Land' [which almost caused her to faint with emotion] ..."
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Farningham Print: Serial / periodical
Felicia Hemans : The Better Land
"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The first was about a family Bible, the last line of each stanza being 'The old-fashioned Bible that lay on the stand'; the second was Felicia Hemans's 'The Better Land' [which almost caused her to faint with emotion] ..."
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Farningham Print: Serial / periodical
: Sunday School Union magazines
"... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union's magazines, at the incessant stories of poor boys who had risen to be rich and great men: 'Every month I hoped to find the story of some poor ignorant girl who ... had yet been able by her own efforts and the blessing of God ... to live a life of usefulness, if not of greatness.'"
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Farningham Print: Serial / periodical
Ovid : Metamorphoses
"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14th December Wat. Conniston began to read the book of Josephus.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Print: Book
Germaine de Stael : Delphine
'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature years she viewed more critically (if still with enjoyment, although her husband was "disgusted" by it).'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Josepha Holroyd Print: Book
Heny Thomas Buckle : History of Civilization in England
'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed. My best thanks to you for it, dear friend. I am in the thick of a very different sort of book now, - "Elsie Venner", which I did not mean to read; but a look at the first page carried me on: How immensely clever some of these Americans are! and their style of tale so new! I dislike all the part connected with Elsie: but I enjoy the New England atmosphere of the thing, and the wonderful power of deep and incessant observation'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Print: Book
Harriet Martineau : Mary and her Grandmother
Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end italics] of a Paris friend, and stood reading on the spot where I took it up, without the least idea of its authorship. It seemed like a Sunday-school book, but how different from its class in general!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Weston Chapman Print: Book
Frances Burney : Evelina
'"Yes," bolted out Mrs. Bowdler, "Harriet is one of the greatest admirers of 'Evelina'." These sort of abrupt speeches from people one hardly knows are amazingly distressing: & Fanny Bowdler & Miss Leigh looked almost as awkward as myself.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Maria (Harriet) Bowdler Print: Book
Frances Burney : Evelina
'. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came out,-. . .'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Maria Lawes Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
[Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent "Evenings at Home" amongst books of mere entertainment. Upon a close examination, it appears to be the best book for young people from seven to ten years old, that has yet appeared. We shall not pretend to enter into a minute examination of it; because, from what we have already said, parents can infer sentiments, and we wish to avoid tedious, unnecessary detail.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathetic passages, and natural dialogues in "Evenings at Home" in a manner which would have made even Sterne's critic forget his stop-watch.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) : Early Lessons for Children
'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far the best books of the kind that have ever appeared.' (p406), [ the following pages discuss specific problematic passages]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine : Histoire des Girondins
'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I desired my friend Madame Belloc to use her own discretion in reporting my criticisms on his Histoire des Girondins, but requested that she would convey to him the thanks and admiration of our family for the manner in which he mentioned the Abbe Edgeworth, and our admiration of the beauty of the writing of that whole passage in the work... I feel, and I am sure so will you and Mr. Butler, "What an egotist and what a puppy it is!" But ovation has turned his head.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Sir Henry Cole : The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book
From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, which my Grannie cut open and inside there were piles and piles of the most beautiful delightful wonderful fairy tale books all painted with pictures ? I thought they would never come to an end but alas! in a week we had read them all. They were called the Felix Summerly series'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray Print: Book
Frances Burney : Evelina
?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but indeed it?s very much above a Novel.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Maria Lawes Print: Book
[n/a] : [Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books]
Sunday 18 October: 'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was bibles and prayer books and hyme books so it was opened and we had the books it begins at 11 Oclock i think of you when 2 Oclock comes, and them we go to Dinner and spend the rest of the day how we can reading and singing'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Steley Print: Book
Charlotte Anley : Miriam; Or, the Power of Truth
Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827: 'As we were going down the stairs yesterday Lady M. said to me -- "I am reading a little book now called "Miriam"-- if you should happen to meet with it you will find in its early part, one page which puts me strongly in mind of you -- of your character -- but you shall not see it [italics]here[end italics]." I did not know what to say, but felt very uncomfortable & looked very foolish -- promising myself to lay hold of "Miriam" & of Lady Margaret's opinion respecting me, at the first opportunity.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Margaret Maria Cocks Print: Book
Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature
'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - "The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - "Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?" "O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together." "Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and shewed a false and pedantic taste'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Francis Print: Book
John Locke : Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An
'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - "The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - "Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?" "O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together." "Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and shewed a false and pedantic taste'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Francis Print: Book
Ben Jonson : masques
Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She read Ben Jonson's masques. They are short, & in between she broke off to talk a little [...] I enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Print: Book
Captain Ronald A. Hopwood : 'The Old Way'
Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She read Ben Jonson's masques. They are short, & in between she broke off to talk a little [...] I enjoyed it [...] She read us a poem called The Old Way, of a swashing, patriotic kind, & exclaimed how fine it was, & how, as long as we had Hopwood for a poet we needn't complain.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Print: Book
[unknown] : [a history of the French Revolution]
'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Gaskell Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Gaskell Print: Book
Thomas Day : Sandford and Merton
[from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natural gifts to the writing of books of an educational nature for children'. [ME spent holidays at Day's home]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Thomas Thomson : Annals of Philosophy
'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to him, I have found No 1 and 2 of Thompson's "Annals of Philosophy" - the Report of the Committee of the H of commons on Transportation to Botany Bay (July 10 12)'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Serial / periodical
Samuel Romilly : [speech on the Slave Trade]
'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of the speech there were but two words which I would have ommitted... Nothing could be added by any person of sound taste and enlarged understanding. I hope that Lady Romilly will be curious to know the two words which I would have ommitted. - The two epithets "horrible" and "foul" page 10 - because in the last lines of the preceding page you had said that vague and general terms of reprobation such as "inhuman", "sanguinary", "detestable" can convey but inadequate notions etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Manuscript: Unknown
Walter Scott : Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since
'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all things; I did not like the hero, and thought the whole more a portraiture of individual than of general manners, but this may have arisen from ignorance, and I find in general the Scotch pleased with it. Walter Scott, if he did not write it, certainly must have had a good deal to do with it, but there is a sort of notice prefix'd to the last edition which they seem to say makes it very improbable that it should have been written by him'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Moses Franks : [verses on Mrs Pitt bathing]
'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says She were written by Moses [italics] uninspired [end italics]'.
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Maria Salusbury
Metastasio [pseud.] : Adriano
'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Daughter get by heart - Johnson translated into Blank Verse - [italics] sur le Champ [end italics]: Baretti wrote it down from his Lips, and I write it now from Baretti's Copy, which is almost worne out with lying by in the folds'. [the verses are given in Italian and English]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Maria Thrale Print: Book
Jonathan Swift :
'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daughter; every thing of his seems to be [italics] Froth [end italics] I think, and that Froth is [italics] Dirty [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Maria Thrale Print: Book
Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [from] Sylvie and Bruno
'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goadby The Hunting of the Snark " Mrs Cass The Mock Turtle's Story " Mr Stansfield The Jabberwock " Mrs Edminson The Explanation of the Jabberwock Etmyology " Mrs Goadby 41: from Sylvie and Bruno " Mrs [Miss?] Neild A poem " A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Neild Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Much Ado About Nothing
'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??illegible] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Neild Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : 'Swiss Journal [letter]'
Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superstitious age would certainly have believed him possessed of the [italics]art magic[end italics], so completely does he continue to force attention and sympathy wherever he pleases [comments further in praise of text and author] [...] I always forget myself when I think of our greatest genius [i.e. Byron]. Therefore I will hasten to thank you for the two dramas. The French one amuses me, the other does so for a different reason.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham Manuscript: Unknown
: French play
Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superstitious age would certainly have believed him possessed of the [italics]art magic[end italics], so completely does he continue to force attention and sympathy wherever he pleases [comments further in praise of text and author] [...] I always forget myself when I think of our greatest genius [i.e. Byron]. Therefore I will hasten to thank you for the two dramas. The French one amuses me, the other does so for a different reason.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham
: play
Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superstitious age would certainly have believed him possessed of the [italics]art magic[end italics], so completely does he continue to force attention and sympathy wherever he pleases [comments further in praise of text and author] [...] I always forget myself when I think of our greatest genius [i.e. Byron]. Therefore I will hasten to thank you for the two dramas. The French one amuses me, the other does so for a different reason.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham
George Gordon Lord Byron : works
Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817: 'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lord Byron? You know my admiration for his works, and my thoughts for the best, the very best, of the man [...] I have seen but one new book -- a Danish account of the north of Africa, interesting and curious [...] It is straight from the Baltic, having been comissioned by my good friend, Dr. Ross'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham Print: Book
: 'a Danish account of the north of Africa'
Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817: 'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lord Byron? You know my admiration for his works, and my thoughts for the best, the very best, of the man [...] I have seen but one new book -- a Danish account of the north of Africa, interesting and curious [...] It is straight from the Baltic, having been comissioned by my good friend, Dr. Ross'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Graham Print: Book
William Shakespeare :
[between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887] 'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovered [following operation on 9 January] Maria [daughter] had acted as her secretary and had read Shakespeare to her.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria [nee Guest] Print: Book
George Lyttelton : Advice to a Lady
[Maria Branwell to her fiance, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, 5 December 1812:] 'Since I began this [letter] Jane put into my hands Lord Lyttleton's Advice to a Lady. When I read those lines, "Be never cool reserve with passion joined, with caution choose, but then be fondly kind, etc.," my heart smote me for having in some cases used too much reserve towards you. Do you think you have any cause to complain of me? If you do, let me know it. For were it in my power to prevent it, I would in no instance occasion you the least pain or uneasiness. I am certain no one ever loved you with an affection more pure, constant, tender, and ardent than that which I feel [...] I long to improve in every religious and moral quality, that I may be a help, and if possible an ornament to you. Oh let us pray for much wisdom and grace to fill our appointed stations with propriety, that we may enjoy satisfaction in our own souls, edify others, and bring glory to the name of Him who has so wonderfully preserved, blessed and brought us together.'
