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John Ruskin : Modern Painters
" .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had copied out and carried round with her ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Arnold Print: Book
: Texts in/on early Spanish
On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Arnold Print: Book
: [newspaper]
'[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the paragraphs about Papa. The L's showed them me on Saturday. You can imagine the excitement I was in on Saturday night, not knowing whether it was true or not'. [this refers to a newspaper report of her father's abandonment of Catholicism]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Newspaper
Matthew Arnold : Essays in Criticism
'[from Mary Arnold, later Ward's diary] "Read Uncle Matt's [Matthew Arnold's] Essay on Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment. Compares the religious feeling of Pompei and Theocritus with the religious feeling of St Francis and the German Reformation. Contrasts the religion of sorrow as he is pleased to call Christianity with the religion of sense, giving to the former for the sake of propriety a slight pre-eminence over the latter". She does not like the famous "Preface" at all. "The 'Preface' is rich and has the fault which the author professes to avoid, that of being amusing. as for the seductiveness of Oxford, its moonlight charms and Romeo and Juliet character, I think Uncle Matt is slightly inclined to ride the high horse whenever he approaches the subject".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Book
: [Latin and German writings about early Spanish literature]
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema de Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Book
: [Spanish poems and chronicles]
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema de Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Book
: El Cantar de Mio Cid
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema del Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
