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Elizabeth Barrett

 

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Euripides : [all plays]

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

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

  

St John Chrysostom : Commentary on the Ephesians

I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing to look at! Very eloquent sometimes: but such a monotony & lengthiness! Sunday is not a reading day with me. Driving to church, driving back again, driving to chapel, driving back again - & prayers three times at home besides! All that fills up the day, except the few interstices between the intersections.

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

  

 : 

Read as I have done lately, not for the pleasure of thinking: but for the comfort of not thinking.

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

  

 : Bible

Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they should be ? witness what I have written today. I would erase every line of it, could I annihilate the feelings, together with the descriptions of them; but, since I cannot, let the description pass!

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

  

Aeschylus : 

Very busy today. Reading Aeschylus & learning the verb τύπτω.

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

  

 : Bible

Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.

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

  

Horne : 

Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.

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

  

Homer : unknown

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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

  

Aeschylus : unknown

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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

  

Aeschylus : Prometheus

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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

  

Euripides : Medea

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

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

  

William Shakespeare : unknown

We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea.

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho

'And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them herself ? a kind of generosity which quite dazzled my weak moral sense. I have read the mysteries; but am anxious to read them again ? being a worshipper of Mrs. Radcliffe.'

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

  

Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho

Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.

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

  

 : Cyclopaedia

Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.

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

  

Victor Hugo : 

Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.

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

  

Lamartine : 

Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.

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

  

Lamartine : Childe Harold

Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.

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

  

Euripides : 

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Marcus Antoninus : 

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Callimachus : 

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

 : Anthologia

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Epictetus : 

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Isocrates : 

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Leonardo Da Vinci : [Painting]

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Susan Ferrier : Destiny

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Susan Ferrier : The Inheritance

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Euripides : Alcestis

At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting. The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again. Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me. I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?. I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries. It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?. Read some of the Alcestis. Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too.

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

  

Euripides : Alcestis

I liked my solitude, even tho? I had no one to say so to - & in spite of La Bruy?re & Cowper! ? Nearly finished the Alcestis. I will finish it tomorrow, before breakfast

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

  

Antoninus : 

They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.

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

  

 : Bible

They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.

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

  

Marcus Antoninus : 

I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day].

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

  

Marcus Antoninus : 

I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my time in this way, between philosophy & folly. Anoninus wd. not be well pleased, if he could know whom he has for a reader!

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

  

Marcus Antoninus : 

On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I do anything without them? Nothing but reading the 3d. vol: of Mrs. Shelley, which I despatched in two hours ? (which did come at last!! - ) No going out today. Marcus Antoninus after Mrs. Shelly [sic], and drinking tea after Marcus.

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

  

Mary Shelley : The Last Man

On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I do anything without them? Nothing but reading the 3d. vol: of Mrs. Shelley, which I despatched in two hours ? (which did come at last!! - ) No going out today. Marcus Antoninus after Mrs. Shelly [sic], and drinking tea after Marcus.

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

  

Marcus Antoninus : 

On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I do anything without them? Nothing but reading the 3d. vol: of Mrs. Shelley, which I despatched in two hours ? (which did come at last!! - ) No going out today. Marcus Antoninus after Mrs. Shelly [sic], and drinking tea after Marcus.

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

  

Cebes : Dialogue

Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed. It is rather a pleasing than a profound performance, - & on this account as well as on account of the extreme facility of the Greek, it can bear fast reading.

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

  

John Keats : Lamia

I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them. But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion. The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine. Poor poor Keats. His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?

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

  

John Keats : Isabella

I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them. But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion. The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine. Poor poor Keats. His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?

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

  

John Keats : Eve of St Agnes

I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them. But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion. The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine. Poor poor Keats. His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?

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

  

John Keats : Hyperion

I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them. But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion. The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine. Poor poor Keats. His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?

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

  

John Keats : Endymion

I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy. You don?t know where to put it. Your imagination is confused by it: & your feelings uninterested. And yet a poet wrote it. When I had done with Keats, I took up Theophrastus. Theophrastus has a great deal of vivacity, & power of portraiture about him; & uplifts that veil of distance ? veiling the old Greeks with such sublime mistiness; & shows you how they used to spit & take physic & wear nailed shoes tout comme un autre?Theophrastus does me no good just now: & as I can?t laugh with him, I shall be glad when I have done hearing him laugh.

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

  

Theophrastus : 

I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy. You don?t know where to put it. Your imagination is confused by it: & your feelings uninterested. And yet a poet wrote it. When I had done with Keats, I took up Theophrastus. Theophrastus has a great deal of vivacity, & power of portraiture about him; & uplifts that veil of distance ? veiling the old Greeks with such sublime mistiness; & shows you how they used to spit & take physic & wear nailed shoes tout comme un autre?Theophrastus does me no good just now: & as I can?t laugh with him, I shall be glad when I have done hearing him laugh.

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

  

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam

Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up. He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a great poet as we acknowledge Spenser to be so, & do not love him for it. He resembles Spenser in one thing, & one thing only, that his poetry is too immaterial for our sympathies to enclasp it firmly. It reverses the lot of human plants: its roots are in the air, not earth! ? But as I read him on, I may reverse this opinion.

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

  

Goldoni : Pamela

I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is not much in the second, for anybody to claim!

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

  

Goldoni : Pamela Maritata

I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is not much in the second, for anybody to claim!

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

  

 : Bible

I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all the epistles, marking with my pencil every expression that seems to glance at or against the doctrine of particular exclusive election.

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

  

 : Bible

Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa Harlowe; but the heroine is more immaculate than even Clarissa, & more happy finally! ? The book is well-written & interesting. A combination of fortitude & delicacy always interests me in a particular manner.

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

  

Mary Brunton : Self Control

Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa Harlowe; but the heroine is more immaculate than even Clarissa, & more happy finally! ? The book is well-written & interesting. A combination of fortitude & delicacy always interests me in a particular manner.

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

  

Beverley : Letter to the Archbishop of York

I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse enough, & in some places too highly colored. For instance, I do not believe that the body of the established clergy are as much opposed to the reading of the scriptures, as the papistical clergy are; and I do know instances of members of that body, refusing the sacrament to persons of immoral character?

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

  

Beverley : Tombs of the Prophets

I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse enough, & in some places too highly colored. For instance, I do not believe that the body of the established clergy are as much opposed to the reading of the scriptures, as the papistical clergy are; and I do know instances of members of that body, refusing the sacrament to persons of immoral character?

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

  

Dr Card : Discourse

I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason, it is unconvincing. At least this is true of one or two material parts, where even I have detected fallacies. Dr. Card?s sermon on the Athanasian creed, is bound up in the same volume; & I have read it.

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

  

Card : Sermon on the Athanasian Creed

I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason, it is unconvincing. At least this is true of one or two material parts, where even I have detected fallacies. Dr. Card?s sermon on the Athanasian creed, is bound up in the same volume; & I have read it.

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

  

Channing : On the importance & means of a national Literature

Mrs. Martin lent me Dr. Channing?s treatise ?On the importance & means of a national Literature?, & I ought to be grateful to her. I have been reading it this morning. It is a very admirable, & lucidly & energetically written production. The style is less graceful than powerful. Indeed it has so much strength, that the muscles are by necessity, rather too obvious & prominent. But its writer is obviously & prominently an extraordinary man.

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

  

 : Iphigenia in Aulide

Getting on with Iphigenia [in Aulide] I am very much interested in it ? particularly in the scene between Iphigenia & her father. How much simple affectionate nature there is in her character! The opposition between her?s, & Clytemnestra?s stately dignity, is skilfully conceived.

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

  

Gregory : Apologetick

We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & came to the conclusion, that our tastes certainly do agree!! And so they do.

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

  

 : Hippolytus

Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.

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

  

Aeschylus : Supplices

Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.

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

  

Aeschylus : Choephori

Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficulties.

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

  

Aeschylus : Eumenides

Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficulties.

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

  

Joseph Clarke : Sacred Literature

I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire. So that my opinion is nothing outrageous. I do not feel well; & look like a ghost.

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

  

Synesius : Poems

Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine. He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each. I like the 7th. hymn extremely. A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th. I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps. The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest.

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

  

Gregory : Odes

Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine. He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each. I like the 7th. hymn extremely. A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th. I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps. The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest.

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

  

[author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anon : History of a Flirt, The

'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by the author of "The Manoeuvring Mother"] The name may alarm you ? but the writer "leans to Miss Austen?s side," ? as I remember dear Dr. Mitford and yourself do - & there is some power and much truth to nature.'

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village

'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in her degree! ? only I wdnt have one of your dear hands "cut off" that you shd "write one page like her?s with the other", - because, really & earnestly, your Village and Belford Regis are more charming to me than her pages in congregation. She wants (admit it honestly, because you know she wants it) she wants a little touch of poetry. Her "neighbours" walk about & gossip, all unconscious of the sunshine & the trees & the running waters ? to say nothing of the God of nature & providence. "Persuasion" (ah! You are cunning to bring "Persuasion" to me!) is the highest & most touching of her works ? and I agree with you gladly that it is perfect in its kind, & with touches of a higher impulse in it than we look generally to receive from her genius.'

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Belford Regis

'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in her degree! ? only I wdnt have one of your dear hands "cut off" that you shd "write one page like her?s with the other", - because, really & earnestly, your Village and Belford Regis are more charming to me than her pages in congregation. She wants (admit it honestly, because you know she wants it) she wants a little touch of poetry. Her "neighbours" walk about & gossip, all unconscious of the sunshine & the trees & the running waters ? to say nothing of the God of nature & providence. "Persuasion" (ah! You are cunning to bring "Persuasion" to me!) is the highest & most touching of her works ? and I agree with you gladly that it is perfect in its kind, & with touches of a higher impulse in it than we look generally to receive from her genius.'

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

  

Jane Austen : Persuasion

'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in her degree! ? only I wdnt have one of your dear hands "cut off" that you shd "write one page like her?s with the other", - because, really & earnestly, your Village and Belford Regis are more charming to me than her pages in congregation. She wants (admit it honestly, because you know she wants it) she wants a little touch of poetry. Her "neighbours" walk about & gossip, all unconscious of the sunshine & the trees & the running waters ? to say nothing of the God of nature & providence. "Persuasion" (ah! You are cunning to bring "Persuasion" to me!) is the highest & most touching of her works ? and I agree with you gladly that it is perfect in its kind, & with touches of a higher impulse in it than we look generally to receive from her genius.'

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

  

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay

'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of the Edinburgh Review, a notice of Madme d?Arblay, very admirable in all ways, but chiefly interesting to you for the sake of the high estimate of your Miss Austen, who is called second to Shakespeare in the nice delineation of character.' [the review was in the January 1843 issue].

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

  

Maria Edgeworth : unknown

'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both those excellent writers appears to me (if indeed that can be a fault which is so closely allied to the peculiarity of their excellencies) a defect in passion altogether, through their habit of considering life & humanity on the cold conventional side. "Persuasion", to be sure, has touching passages ? and Miss Edgeworth permits you to see, not unfrequently, that she can feel as well as teach, though she chooses to teach. I hope I do not ungratefully misprize the writings of Miss Edgeworth ? it wd be rank ingratitude if I did. They are excellent & admirable ? but I cannot say, poetical & passionate. The depths of the heart & the heights of Heaven have no part or lot in them ? and pastoral Nature is as utterly shut out. Still, after their kind, they are excellent; and I too shd be one-sided if I could not honor them aright [?] Woe be to me, if I pretended to misprize Miss Edgeworth!'

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

  

Elizabeth Inchbald : Simple Story, A

'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?'

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

  

Mary Howitt : Home, The

'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Austen?s, but I shd be afraid to tell you exactly how I wd modify the comparison. [The Athenaeum of 13 May 1843 said of the Bremer books: 'We have had nothing so simply life-like since Galt?s "Annals of the Parish" ? no pictures of female nature so finely touched, since Miss Austen.']

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

  

various : Athenaeum

'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Austen?s, but I shd be afraid to tell you exactly how I wd modify the comparison. [The Athenaeum of 13 May 1843 said of the Bremer books: 'We have had nothing so simply life-like since Galt?s "Annals of the Parish" ? no pictures of female nature so finely touched, since Miss Austen.']

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

  

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressions do grow stronger & stronger in their old places. She is perfect after her kind ? true to the nature she SAW - & with a sufficient sense of the Beautiful, for grace. Like Mrs Hemans, she is too obviously a lady. I have put it in the shape of blame - & many might remark the same thing for praise: I mean however, that her ladyhood is always stronger in her than her humanity. Not that she is defective in strength as Mrs Hemans sometimes is ? she can "always do the thing she would" better than anybody else. Surely, surely I am not a niggard in my praise of Jane Austen! To call her a great writer & learned in the secrets, heights & depths of our nature, or a poet in anywise, is all that I refuse to call her ? and indeed I have not breath & articulation for such an opinion: & it astonishes me that you shd be so exorbitant my dearest Miss Mitford, in your claim for her!'

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

  

Jane Austen : Persuasion

'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressions do grow stronger & stronger in their old places. She is perfect after her kind ? true to the nature she SAW - & with a sufficient sense of the Beautiful, for grace. Like Mrs Hemans, she is too obviously a lady. I have put it in the shape of blame - & many might remark the same thing for praise: I mean however, that her ladyhood is always stronger in her than her humanity. Not that she is defective in strength as Mrs Hemans sometimes is ? she can "always do the thing she would" better than anybody else. Surely, surely I am not a niggard in my praise of Jane Austen! To call her a great writer & learned in the secrets, heights & depths of our nature, or a poet in anywise, is all that I refuse to call her ? and indeed I have not breath & articulation for such an opinion: & it astonishes me that you shd be so exorbitant my dearest Miss Mitford, in your claim for her!'

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

  

Felicia Hemans : [poems]

'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressions do grow stronger & stronger in their old places. She is perfect after her kind ? true to the nature she SAW - & with a sufficient sense of the Beautiful, for grace. Like Mrs Hemans, she is too obviously a lady. I have put it in the shape of blame - & many might remark the same thing for praise: I mean however, that her ladyhood is always stronger in her than her humanity. Not that she is defective in strength as Mrs Hemans sometimes is ? she can "always do the thing she would" better than anybody else. Surely, surely I am not a niggard in my praise of Jane Austen! To call her a great writer & learned in the secrets, heights & depths of our nature, or a poet in anywise, is all that I refuse to call her ? and indeed I have not breath & articulation for such an opinion: & it astonishes me that you shd be so exorbitant my dearest Miss Mitford, in your claim for her!'

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

  

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just below. Sense & Sensibility is inferior, by my impression, to every one of them?& I am inclined to call that weak and commonplace occasionally.'

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

  

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just below. Sense & Sensibility is inferior, by my impression, to every one of them?& I am inclined to call that weak and commonplace occasionally.'

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

  

[Miss] Pickering : [novels]

'As to Miss Pickering, if there shd be anybody in the world who makes a Miss Austen of her, or a Scott of her, that body cannot be famous for his or her literary judgement. Miss Pickering was a good & pure novelist of the circulating libraries - & could tell a story to an end without letting it fall. But her very appreciators would not think of anticipating the continuance of her reputation much beyond the burning of the candle they read her by. Did she ever dream of such a claim herself?'

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

  

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon : Les Aventures de Telemaque

Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have finished "Telemaque," and have read one, or two of Racine's plays, which I like very much'.

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

  

Jean Racine : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have finished "Telemaque," and have read one, or two of Racines plays, which I like very much'.

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

  

 : Latin grammar

Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as far in the Grammar as "Propriae quae maribus"; I do not like it at all, I think it twice as difficult as French'.

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

  

Maria Edgeworth : Manoeuvring

Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'My very dear Mama / Excuse me, I do not at all like Manoeuvring, it is not to my taste. I recognize that it is still Miss Edgeworth, but it is no longer the author of Patronage in reality [...] I agree that Mr. Palmer is a charming character [...] except that one the novels you choose for me always give me pleasure.'

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

  

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage

Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that she is not entirely made to be a heroine [...] she has too much sense of mind. 'The few novels I have read confirm this thought -- for example, [in] Rob Roy -- the lofty and noble soul of Diana Vernon strikes us with admiration [...] she forgets womanly duties in the personality of a man; she is a heroine, Caroline is not [...] [when] she chooses to fill the character she sustains [with] grief for her parents [...] it pleased me greatly'.

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

  

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that she is not entirely made to be a heroine [...] she has too much sense of mind. 'The few novels I have read confirm this thought -- for example, [in] Rob Roy -- the lofty and noble soul of Diana Vernon strikes us with admiration [...] she forgets womanly duties in the personality of a man; she is a heroine, Caroline is not [...] [when] she chooses to fill the character she sustains [with] grief for her parents [...] it pleased me greatly'.

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

  

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Works including The Corsair

Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817: 'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair &c how foolish I have been not to read them before they did not entertain me much as I have perused the extracts and the reviews on them [...] I think many of the passages exquisitely beautiful the parting of Conrad and Medora & the intercessory between the hero and Gulnare are in my humble opinion two of the MOST beautiful'.

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

  

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Reviews of the Corsair

Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817: 'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair &c how foolish I have been not to read them before they did not entertain me much as I have perused the extracts and the reviews on them [...] I think many of the passages exquisitely beautiful the parting of Conrad and Medora & the intercessory between the hero and Gulnare are in my humble opinion two of the MOST beautiful'.

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

  

Frederick Sylvester North Douglas : An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks

Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.

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

  

John Bigland : An Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations

Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.

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

  

Marquise de Sevigne : Letters

Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.

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

  

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth

Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.

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

  

unknown : Review of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825) (including extracts from poem)

Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825: 'Have you met with Southey's new Poem "The Tale of Paraguay["]? The extracts I have seen delight me maugre the reviewing commentary which speaks I think much too harshly and partially.'

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

  

Uvedale Price : An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826: 'Mr Price's desire that I should have read these sheets [proofs of Price's Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages] with the design of remarking on them I have obeyed with much deference to him [...] I have read them with deep interest & attention [goes on to discuss and dispute text in great depth and detail]'.

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

  

Petronius  : Satyricon

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.

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

  

William Chamberlayne : Pharonnida, an Heroic Poem

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.

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

  

James Beattie : The Minstrel

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.

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

  

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.

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

  

Thomas Chatterton : An Excelente Balade of Charitie

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoubtedly a new combination of striking circumstances in your Capture of St Sebastian [...] I cannot however allow that sulphur is only mentioned in [italics]Homer[end italics] when I find this expressive passage in Petronius Arbiter [slightly misquotes two lines from the Satyricon, followed by further relevant quotes from William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (III canto 3); Beattie, The Minstrel, I v.54, and Shakespeare's Tempest I.2.203-204] [...] 'After some searching, I have only found "the alarming impression of the storm, while yet collecting, on all animals" mentioned in Chatterton's Excellent Balade of Charitie, -- which I am sure you must think poetically excellent [quotes line from verse 5] [...] but here the cattle have had a more ordinary indication of the aproaching storm [i.e. falling rain] than your awful circumstances of close oppressive heat, praeternatural stillness & silence'.

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

  

Homer  : 

'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'.

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

  

Richard Johnson : The Famous Historie of the Seven Champions of Christendom

'At four and a half my great delight was poring over fairy phenomenons and the actions of necromancers -- & the seven champions of Christendom in "Popular tales" has beguiled many a weary hour.'

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

  

unknown : 'History of England and Rome'

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

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

  

unknown : 'History of Greece'

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

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

  

James Beattie : The Minstrel

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies! -- I was enchanted with all these but I think the story interested me more that [sic] the poetry till "The Minstrel" met my sight [...] The brilliant imagery[,] the fine metaphors and the flowing numbers of "the Minstrel" truly astonished me.'

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

  

Homer  : The Iliad

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

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

  

Homer  : The Odyssey

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

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

  

John Milton : Paradise Lost (extracts)

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

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

  

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

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

  

William Shakespeare : Othello

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

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

  

Homer  : unknown

'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was in infinite danger of being as vain as I was inexperienced! During this dangerous period I was from home & the fever of a heated imagination was perhaps increased by the intoxicating gai[e]ties of a watering place Ramsgate where we then were and where I commenced my poem "The Battle of Marathon" [...] When we came home one day after having written a page of poetry which I considered models of beauty I ran downstairs to the library to seek Popes Homer in order to compare them that I might enjoy my OWN SUPERIORITY [...] I brought Homer up in triumph & read first my own Poem & afterwards began to compare -- I read fifty lines from the glorious Father of the lyre -- It was enough -- I felt the whole extent of my own immense & mortifying inferiority -- 'My first impulse was to throw with mingled feelings of contempt & anguish my composition on the floor -- my next to burst into tears! & I wept for an hour and then returned to reason and humility [...] From this period for a twelvemonth I could find no pleasure in any book but Homer. I read & longed to read again and tho I had it nearly by heart I still found new beauties & fresh enchantments'.

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

  

Homer  : unknown

'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was in infinite danger of being as vain as I was inexperienced! During this dangerous period I was from home & the fever of a heated imagination was perhaps increased by the intoxicating gai[e]ties of a watering place Ramsgate where we then were and where I commenced my poem "The Battle of Marathon" [...] When we came home one day after having written a page of poetry which I considered models of beauty I ran downstairs to the library to seek Popes Homer in order to compare them that I might enjoy my OWN SUPERIORITY [...] I brought Homer up in triumph & read first my own Poem & afterwards began to compare -- I read fifty lines from the glorious Father of the lyre -- It was enough -- I felt the whole extent of my own immense & mortifying inferiority -- 'My first impulse was to throw with mingled feelings of contempt & anguish my composition on the floor -- my next to burst into tears! & I wept for an hour and then returned to reason and humility [...] From this period for a twelvemonth I could find no pleasure in any book but Homer. I read & longed to read again and tho I had it nearly by heart I still found new beauties & fresh enchantments'.

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

  

Elizabeth Barrett : The Battle of Marathon

'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had a better opinion of my own talents -- In short I was in infinite danger of being as vain as I was inexperienced! During this dangerous period I was from home & the fever of a heated imagination was perhaps increased by the intoxicating gai[e]ties of a watering place Ramsgate where we then were and where I commenced my poem "The Battle of Marathon" [...] When we came home one day after having written a page of poetry which I considered models of beauty I ran downstairs to the library to seek Popes Homer in order to compare them that I might enjoy my OWN SUPERIORITY [...] I brought Homer up in triumph & read first my own Poem & afterwards began to compare -- I read fifty lines from the glorious Father of the lyre -- It was enough -- I felt the whole extent of my own immense & mortifying inferiority -- 'My first impulse was to throw with mingled feelings of contempt & anguish my composition on the floor -- my next to burst into tears! & I wept for an hour and then returned to reason and humility [...] From this period for a twelvemonth I could find no pleasure in any book but Homer. I read & longed to read again and tho I had it nearly by heart I still found new beauties & fresh enchantments'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

John Locke : unknown

'At twelve I enjoyed a literary life in all its pleasures. Metaphysics were my highest delights and after having read a page from Locke my mind not only felt edified but exalted.'

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

  

Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes

'In my sixth year [...] Nothing could contribute so much to my amusement as a novel. A novel at six years may appear ridiculous, but it was a real desire that I felt, -- not to instruct myself, I felt no such wish, but to divert myself and to afford more scope to my nightly meditations ... and it is worthy to remark that in a novel I carefully past over all passages which described CHILDREN -- 'The Fops love and pursuit of the heroines mother in "Temper" delighted me, but the description of the infancy of Emma was past over'.

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

  

John Milton : unknown

'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic] not to indulge my fancy and I studied the works of those critics whose attention was directed to my favorite authors.'

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

  

William Shakespeare : unknown

'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic] not to indulge my fancy and I studied the works of those critics whose attention was directed to my favorite authors.'

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

  

Homer  : unknown

'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare & Pope's Homer [...] I now read to gain idea's [sic] not to indulge my fancy and I studied the works of those critics whose attention was directed to my favorite authors.'

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

  

Homer  : unknown

'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'

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

  

Virgil  : unknown

'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'

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

  

Hooker : unknown

'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'

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

  

Cicero  : unknown

'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's are more solid & more profound -- mine are more refined & dazzling [...] He delights in the sober reasoning of the Historian! He feels greater interest in the noble Sallust while I have remained entranced over a page of the divine & animated Cicero!'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'A Day of Pleasure at Malvern'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : A Malvern Tale

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Prologue and Epilogue to poems of St Gregory

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'Elegy'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Translation from Sophocles' Electra

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to thank you for the pleasure you have afforded me. As you desire me to mention which of the two poems on the calamity at Malvern, I prefer, I will frankly select the [italics]first[end italics], tho' the "Malvern tale" has many lines that interest me, together with a smoothness of versification which is common in your writings. Your prologue & epilogue to St Gregory's poems are elegant; & your preface to that translation, attractive on several accounts. I am not ungrateful to the [italics]Elegy[end italics]: but were I to say on what page I linger longest, I think I should turn at once to your translation from the [italics]Electra[end italics].'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      

  

Uvedale Price and James Commeline : correspondence on pronunciation of classical languages

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [...] I thought it odd that an article of the Edinburgh Review should be referred to, on a philological subject; &, on looking into the one which Mr Commeline calls the "Manual of his heresy", I was surprised to find us accused there of ["]subverting the true metrical structure of Latin hexameters, even according to the accentual system" by [italics]not[end italics] laying our accent on the [italics]long[end italics] syllable, & by laying it on the short ones. The Reviewer seems confused in his speculations'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

unknown : Review of William Mitford, An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language...

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [...] I thought it odd that an article of the Edinburgh Review should be referred to, on a philological subject; &, on looking into the one which Mr Commeline calls the "Manual of his heresy", I was surprised to find us accused there of ["]subverting the true metrical structure of Latin hexameters, even according to the accentual system" by [italics]not[end italics] laying our accent on the [italics]long[end italics] syllable, & by laying it on the short ones. The Reviewer seems confused in his speculations'.

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Reflections on the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, September 1827: 'I am [...] obliged to you for sending me your work on the Atonement [...] I have read your book with sincere respect both for your ability as a disputant & your elevated feelings as a Christian.'

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

  

Elizabeth Barrett : (probably) "The Development of Genius"

Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, c.October 1827: 'As Lady Margaret wished to see a part of my poem, I read her a few sheets, & when I had done she begged they might remain with her till I left Eastnor [...] 'She said the work shewed "great mind & thought [italics]always[end italics], -- & poetical power [italics]frequently[end italics]:" observing in criticism that I was "too metaphysical now & then."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Sheet

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom, St Gregory Nazianzen, and St Basil

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 November 1827: 'You have extremely obliged me by lending me your Select Translations, -- passages from which, I have repeatedly read with increasing delight & admiration: particularly the Oration on Eutropius, which is a picture in motion , -- & that [italics]Homeric[end italics] description of a battle, contained in your extract from the 6th book of St Chrysostom "On the Priesthood".'

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

  

Lucan  : Pharsalia

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 December 1827: 'I [italics]have[end italics] read the Pharsalia; & am very glad that you do not join in the classical [italics]growl[end italics] against it, given vent to, by most critics [...] Lucan is an ardent poet: the lightning of his spirit [...] has a real stormy grandeur which can only proceed from genius.'

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

  

Uvedale Price : An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages

Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 December 1827: 'It gave me great pleasure to hear that you think so favorably of my Essay now that you have read the whole of it, & that what you [italics]had[end italics] read in MS., has gained by being in print.'

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

  

 : Hebrew scriptures

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1828: 'I know very little Hebrew, & have indeed only read a few chapters in the original scriptures.'

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

  

Aeschlylus  : Prometheus Bound

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 March 1828: I have reconsidered Io [...] I quite agree with you in admiring the night visions, the geographical descriptions, & several other passages full of animation & power. I can do this with perfect truth, as I read the scene in an unconnected state'.

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

  

anon : Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end italics] [...] The flat contradiction between the Eclectic Review & Literary Gazette, with respect to [italics]Akenside[end italics], will amuse you [...] I was put out of humour for at least ten minutes, by the charge of my having imitated Darwin. I never could [italics]bear[end italics] Darwin! I have tried his Botanic Garden four or five times, & never could get thro' above twenty pages!'

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

  

anon : Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end italics] [...] The flat contradiction between the Eclectic Review & Literary Gazette, with respect to [italics]Akenside[end italics], will amuse you [...] I was put out of humour for at least ten minutes, by the charge of my having imitated Darwin. I never could [italics]bear[end italics] Darwin! I have tried his Botanic Garden four or five times, & never could get thro' above twenty pages!'

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

  

Erasmus Darwin : The Botanic Garden, a Poem

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end italics] [...] The flat contradiction between the Eclectic Review & Literary Gazette, with respect to [italics]Akenside[end italics], will amuse you [...] I was put out of humour for at least ten minutes, by the charge of my having imitated Darwin. I never could [italics]bear[end italics] Darwin! I have tried his Botanic Garden four or five times, & never could get thro' above twenty pages!'

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

  

St Chrysostom : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading several parts of your translation, exactly as you desired me to do -- slowly, & out loud: and I have admired the particular cadences & the general rhythm, all the way.'

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

  

St Chrysostom : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading several parts of your translation, exactly as you desired me to do -- slowly, & out loud: and I have admired the particular cadences & the general rhythm, all the way.'

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

  

anon : 'Review'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1-3 May 1828: 'Saturday, eight o' clock. Our dinner hour was rather later than usual today [...] we have only just left the table. I find your parcel waiting for me in my room, & hear that your messenger is in eminent [sic] danger of being benighted. Therefore my quick way of reading, which you are so severe upon, has done me some service, in looking over the magazine & your letter [...] The Review is a very satisfactory one to [italics]my[end italics] vanity'.

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

  

Uvedale Price : Essay on the Picturesque

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28-29 May 1828: "If you have not read the Essay on the Picturesque, will you let me send it to you [...] It is one of the books which I read for the sake of its style, without feeling an interest in its subject'.

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

  

Lady Mary Shepherd : Essays on the Perception of an External Universe

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828: 'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]written[end italics] but warm thanks, for the valuable present, left for me by your Ladyship -- I have read several parts of the Essays with a [italics]curious[end italics] pleasure -- several with an entire mental satisfaction: and I have everywhere admired the originality, brilliancy, & power, which, -- whether your Ladyship's positions be questionable or the contrary, -- undeniably distinguish your mode of supporting them.'

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

  

Henrietta Muschett : poem

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 July 1828: 'I will [italics]not[end italics] keep Miss Muschett's poem, -- notwithstanding your kind permission [...] My general impression of the poem is this, -- that it is very elegantly & feelingly & pleasingly written; but it is deficient in harmony, and the ideas seem to me to be diluted by a [italics]wordiness[end italics] in the expression [...] I like the 20th and 21st stanzas best.'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'elegy'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828: 'It is late for me to be writing, -- but I have this moment received your elegy, -- & I do not wish our servant to go tomorrow [...] without taking a few lines from me on the subject [...] for its has [italics]particularly pleased me[end italics] [goes on to discuss in detail]'.

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

  

E.H. Barker : Parriana; or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr, collected by E. H. Barker

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828: 'I have not gone [italics]thro'[end italics] the Parriana yet. I have been extremely amused by your most [italics]characteristic[end italics] letters, published by Mr Barker.'

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

  

E. H. Barker : The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K.B., to the Authorship of Junius's Letters, Disproved

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 6 August 1828: 'I have finished the Parriana -- but not the work on Junius.'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Thoughts on an Illustrious Exile

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 26-27 September 1828: 'On opening your book to look for Joan of Arc, I came upon your translation of the beautiful episode in the Georgics [i.e. "The Death of Orpheus and Eurydice"] [...] Did I not once tell you how much I admired this translation? I believe I did -- but I must say it over again.'

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

  

E.H. Barker (ed.) : Cicero's Catilinian Orations

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 February 1829, thanking him for forwarding parcel containing E. H. Barker's edition of Cicero's Catilinian Orations: 'I was much interested by the extracts from Schottus's dissertation. I was surprised that Tacitus's treatise should be printed without notes [...] I was also surprised [...] to find Mr Barker's notes in English, while the notes of Ernesti & Ernestus are left in Latin. Surely some uniformity should have been preserved: either the Latin notes should have been rendered into English, or the English notes into Latin. These remarks are for [italics]you[end italics]. You need not take the trouble of repeating, to Mr Barker, anything more than my thanks.'

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

  

Heliodorus  : Aethiopica

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I return Heliodorus, -- & [italics]keep[end italics] many pleasant recollections of him. The lamentation of Chariclia on the death of Calasiris, at page 171. book 7., appears to me the most [italics]eloquent[end italics] passage in the work [goes on to cite and discuss other passages]'.

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : notes to the Agamemnon

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end italics]: first, from your notes to the Agamemnon, & Select passages; & secondly, & more fully & clearly, from your essays in Dr Clarkes commentary.'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'Essay on the Greek Article'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end italics]: first, from your notes to the Agamemnon, & Select passages; & secondly, & more fully & clearly, from your essays in Dr Clarkes commentary.'

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

  

Dugald Stewart : essays

Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829: 'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir Uvedale [Price]. Some time ago I read Stewart's Essays; & I flattered myself, till this moment, that I recollected his arguments clearly enough, to be able to write upon them to you. But upon opening the book & turning over the pages, I find more pages [...] on the subject, than I recollected or reckoned upon: and this letter must not be kept till I can read & think them all over.'

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

  

Dugald Stewart : essays

Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829: 'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir Uvedale [Price]. Some time ago I read Stewart's Essays; & I flattered myself, till this moment, that I recollected his arguments clearly enough, to be able to write upon them to you. But upon opening the book & turning over the pages, I find more pages [...] on the subject, than I recollected or reckoned upon: and this letter must not be kept till I can read & think them all over.'

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

  

Gregory Nazianzen : In laudem virginitatis

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829: 'I have actually & absolutely finished the seven hundred & thirty one lines of Gregory Nazianzen's poem In laudem virginitatis. It will be impossible for me to forget the exact number, as long as I live! I began the poem with the very best intentions of being pleased & interested. At the end of two hundred lines, my Patience became restless & uncomfortable, but took courage & toiled on; & then grew feverish & spasmodically affected, -- & finally sank under accumulations of dulness & dryness & heaviness & tediousness & lengthiness, between the 400th & 500th lines [goes on to discuss piece critically and in detail].]

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

  

John Jebb : Sermons on Subjects Chiefly Practical

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 25 May 1829: 'I have received the Bishop of Limerick's book, & thank you for sending it [...] I read one Sermon last night, & thought it very well & classically written.'

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

  

Jean Jacques Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece (introduction)

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1829: 'I meant to have taken with me today the following extract from the learned Abbe Barthelemi's introduction to his "Voyage of Anarcharsis". It consists of his opposition to a few of the charges generally & principally brought against Homer [including lack of dignity in presentation of noble characters] -- & pleased me very much when I read it for the first time a few days ago [goes on to transcribe passage in own English translation].'

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

  

St Basil : Oration on Barlaam

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'

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

  

St Basil : Oration on Gordius

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'

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

  

St Basil : Treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'

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

  

St Basil : Homily 'De Fide'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The [italics]homily on the Faith[end italics] I had read by your desire, before your last letter reached me [goes on to discuss texts in detail].'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : 'treatise on Geology'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829: 'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I will say nothing about the science of it, for fear you should laugh at me, in which case I should not have even the satisfaction of complaining of your injustice. I assure you I have read it quite thro', & more than once [goes on to cite specific passages].'

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

  

St Chrysostom : 'In Eutropium Eunuchum, Patrium et Consulem'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the Oration on Eutropius [italics]is[end italics]; I have read it twice, -- & I have besides, been reading a little of Longinus's treatise every day, of which I had previously read only own or two chapters [...] the brilliancy of his imaginative powers dazzles you so much, as almost to prevent your perceiving the roughness & cragginess [...] As to the Oration on Eutropius, it has of course delighted me extremely [...] But it has [...] weakness occasioned not merely by [italics]repetition[end italics], but by a super-abundance of supererogatory epithets.'

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

  

Longinus  : De Sublimitate

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the Oration on Eutropius [italics]is[end italics]; I have read it twice, -- & I have besides, been reading a little of Longinus's treatise every day, of which I had previously read only own or two chapters [...] the brilliancy of his imaginative powers dazzles you so much, as almost to prevent your perceiving the roughness & cragginess [...] As to the Oration on Eutropius, it has of course delighted me extremely [...] But it has [...] weakness occasioned not merely by [italics]repetition[end italics], but by a super-abundance of supererogatory epithets.'

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

  

St Chrysostom : orations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthians

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829: 'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & the eighth one on the same subject [goes on briefly to cite specific passages].'

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

  

Plato  : Phaedon

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 December 1829: 'I have been reading over again Plato's Phaedon [...] The reasoning seems to me very inconsecutive & inconclusive [...] But the style is a veil of golden tissue, like that which over- hung the countenance of Moore's Veiled Prophet [in Lalla Rookh]: and let no-one upraise it! [...] Do you recollect the chapters on natural philosophy? How splendid they are!'

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

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Greek epitaph 'On the death of a favourite Tom Cat'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Monday 28 December 1829, thanking him for his epitaph on a cat, and following critical appraisal of it: 'You told me never to read anything of yours to anybody, because I read so badly. Notwithstanding this, I did transgress on Saturday by reading your [italics]feline[end italics] epitaph to Bro, because I thought it sounded better when read in [italics]our[end italics] way, than Carthusianly, as he would have read it. And as I read really very slowly (for [italics]me[end italics]!) & distinctly [...] you need not bewail yourself nor be severe upon me.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

St Chrysostom : 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Hugh Stuart Boyd : Annotations to St Chrysostom, 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Longinus  : De Sublimitate

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thro', which would have been incredible & impossible, if I had not known you. [goes on briefly to comment on texts].'

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

  

Euripides : Rhesus

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thro', which would have been incredible & impossible, if I had not known you. [goes on briefly to comment on texts].'

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

  

 : Latin epigraph

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1830: 'As you like epigrams, & are not likely to have met with one which I met with yesterday in the Times newspaper, & thought ingenious, I will write it down. The subject is Mr [Martin Archer] Shee's election to the office of President, in the room of Sir Thomas Lawrence, -- a circumstance unexpected by any person, -- Mr Shee being better known by his "Rhymes on Art" than by his practice in art. '"Pictoribus atque poetis, Quidlibet audendi" -- 'Lo! Painting crowns her sister Poesy -- The world is all astonished! So is [italics]She[end italics].'

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

  

 : report on change-ringing

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 February 1830: 'Here is a paragraph about Bells which I copy from the Times [transcribes passage reporting first ringing of 'Holt's complete peal of Grandsire triples' in country, by Ipswich senior society of change ringers] [...] 'Perhaps, after all, there may be nothing worth your reading in the paragraph; but as it contained mystic words, "change-ringers", "Grandsire triples" &c I thought I would run the chance of sending it to you.'

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

  

Jean Jacques Racine : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read them by myself; and if they disgusted me then, they are intolerable to me now. The French have no part or lot in poetry [goes on to complain of what she perceives to be excessive formality and orderliness of French neoclassical poetry]'.

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

  

Richard Bentley : A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831: 'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future time -- -- i have read it [italics]once[end italics] thro', -- yet, as there are many things [italics]in[end italics] the book which I should like to read oftener than once, I do not feel quite satisfied, & would bespeak a second loan [...] It is certainly a wonderful work, -- & less wonderful in the extent & depth of its learning, than in the felicity & aptitude & vivacity of that learning's application.'

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

  

Thomas Moore : Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life

Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831: 'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead of after tea, where I contrived to abstract myself out of a good deal of pain into Lord Byron's Life by Moore.'

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

  

Sir William Blackstone : Commentaries on the Laws of England

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a Mr Hawkins an INFINITE Tory, entitled "Reform in Parliament, the ruin of Parliament"'.

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

  

Henry Hawkins : 'Reform of Parliament the Ruin of Parliament'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a Mr Hawkins an INFINITE Tory, entitled "Reform in Parliament, the ruin of Parliament"'.

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

  

 : 'Letter to the Lords' (article concerning Reform Bill)

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 15 November 1831: 'I have been reading an article in the Quarterly Review this morning [italics]about[end italics] the administration, where of course bill the second, is prophetically considered as dead & buried, & Lord Grey turned out. Nothing beats the insolence of the writer except his own folly!'

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

  

Sir Humphrey Davy : Consolation in Travail

Arabella Graham-Clarke to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 Deecmber 1830: 'Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] read the last work of Sir Humphrey Davey "Consolation in travail" It is philosophical and I think would amuse her'.

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

  

Homer  : Carmina Homerica

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832: 'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting the number of lines he has thought proper to leave out of his Homer. If I make no mistake, about 2500 lines are left out of his Iliad, and 1926, out of his Odyssey. Is not this atrox [horrible]?'

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

  

 : Genesis

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or something of the grammar before, I have not been fagging hard -- or indeed [italics]at all[end italics] -- for Papa would not let me do so. Instead of fagging, I have read Corinne for the third time, & admired it more than ever. It is an immortal book, & deserves to be read three score & ten times.'

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

  

Germaine de Stael : Corinne, ou L'Italie

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or something of the grammar before, I have not been fagging hard -- or indeed [italics]at all[end italics] -- for Papa would not let me do so. Instead of fagging, I have read Corinne for the third time, & admired it more than ever. It is an immortal book, & deserves to be read three score & ten times.'

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

  

 : Genesis

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.

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

  

 : Hebrew lexicon

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.

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

  

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.

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

  

 : sequel to I Promessi Sposi

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half way through Genesis, & begin to relax a little from the lexicon. From its being a primitive language it is very interesting in a philosophical point of view. I like to find the roots of words & ideas at the same time [...] I am glad I thought of having recourse to it, for if it had no other advantage, it has at least given a change of air to my mind. I have been reading besides, two Italian novels -- one by Manzani [sic], entitled the Betrothed, which, tho' heavy enough sometime, is very well written & very amiably written. The other is a continuation of the story, by a different & an unequal writer'.

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

  

Frances Anne Kemble : Francis the First, an Historical Drama

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'I have read Miss Fanny Kemble's tragedy [...] It seems to me to be a very clever & indeed surprising production as from the pen of a young person; but I think that from any other pen, it would not find readers. The dialogue is sometime very spirited & ably done; but the poetry is seldom good as poetry'.

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

  

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. I have been looking over it, and do not think his additions & notes of much value. But he is impartial, -- which is a wonderful merit in an editor.'

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

  

 : Hebrew Bible

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.

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

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Pelham, or The Adventures of a Gentleman

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.

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

  

Synesius Bishop of Ptolemais : Hymns

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832: 'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you for lending Synesius to me [...] I have gone thro' the whole of Synesius; and notwithstanding his occasional diffuseness & self- repetition [...] he does [italics]make you feel[end italics] that he is a poet.'

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

  

Euripedes  : Orestes

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I am glad you have been reading Euripedes. I have looked at the passages you referred me to, in my Euripedes, -- and I observe that I have marked them all three. A pencil line of admiration is drawn along the whole margin of the scene you speak of, in the Orestes.'

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

  

Pindar  : Odes

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.

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

  

 : Alcestis

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.

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

  

 : Troades

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.

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

  

Virgil  : Aeneid

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.

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

  

 : Biblia Hebraica

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.

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

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : novels including The Disowned

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'

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

  

Frances Trollope : Domestic Manners of the Americans

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'

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

  

Dr Parr : 'works'

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'

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

  

 : The Theatre of the Greeks

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edited by a Cambridge Student [...] In the body of the work, are extracts from Schlegel: so full of poetical & classical enthusiasm, that I should like to know something of the [italics]German[end italics] Schlegel!'

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

  

August Wilhelm von Schlegel : Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edited by a Cambridge Student [...] In the body of the work, are extracts from Schlegel: so full of poetical & classical enthusiasm, that I should like to know something of the [italics]German[end italics] Schlegel!'

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

  

 : An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 September 1833: 'Dr Clarke's doctrines are not always & altogether and strictly Scriptural; but on all essential doctrines, he is always & altogether & strictly spiritual, -- and the Lord Jesus KNEW [italics] that he loved Him[end italics]. I am just beginning to read the third volume of his Life.'

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

  

Gottlieb Friedrich Klopstock : The Messiah

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 14 September 1834: 'Have you seen a poetical translation of Klopstock's messiah, the performance of a lady residing close to Honiton. I have read and been much pleased with it [goes on to comment upon specific passages].'

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

  

George Herbert : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Do you know Herbert's poems? [Mr Hunter] lent them to me a week ago [...] His poetry has a more spiritually devotional character than any which I ever read.'

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

  

Plato  : Parmenides

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to find out from the Parmenides what [italics]one[end italics] is and what it is not.'

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

  

Thomas Brown : Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics better than ever, & am beginning to think it quite as [italics]demonstrative[end italics] as mathematics the beloved! -- I am reading besides, Anthony Collins, and Luther, [italics]on the will[end italics].'

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

  

Anthony Collins : 

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics better than ever, & am beginning to think it quite as [italics]demonstrative[end italics] as mathematics the beloved! -- I am reading besides, Anthony Collins, and Luther, [italics]on the will[end italics].'

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

  

Martin Luther : 

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics better than ever, & am beginning to think it quite as [italics]demonstrative[end italics] as mathematics the beloved! -- I am reading besides, Anthony Collins, and Luther, [italics]on the will[end italics].'

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

  

Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Brougham : A Discourse upon Natural Theology

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 July 1835: 'I have been reading [...] Lord Brougham's Natural Theology, -- and have shaken my head over it [...] It seems to me to have its most valuable parts in its notes, -- in the observations there upon Hume's philosophy.'

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

  

 : Bridgewater Treatises

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry.'

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

  

William Prout : Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry.'

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

  

Thomas Chalmers : On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry [...] Chalmers's treatise is, as to eloquence, surpassingly beautiful: as to matter, I could not walk with him all the way -- altho' I longed to do it, for he walked on flowers, & under shade'.

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

  

Collins : work 'upon necessity'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835, regarding possible visit to him: 'Don't expect [...] to find me improved in anything -- albeit I [italics]have[end italics] read Collins upon necessity. You know, women never [italics]do[end italics] improve -- after a certain point.'

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

  

Ralph Wardlaw : A Dissertation on the Scriptural Authority, Nature, and Uses, of Infant Baptism

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835: 'Did you ever hear of Dr Wardlaw's treatise upon infant baptism? It is very clearly and forcibly written, -- and altho' I cannot bring my mind to agree with him on all points, yet I think that the main question is placed by him in a satisfying light [notes having copied remarks of Wardlaw's, concerning language in Greek testament, on flyleaf of own Greek testament]'.

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

  

William Kirby : The Habits and Instincts of Animals

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read them all) very unequal [...] They are not consistent in their character. For instance .. Kirby! Who, except a man of science, has understanding for everything in him [...] it was all I could do to get thro' with him, & more than I could do to make out his meaning in many places. His introduction interested me above all the rest, in its subject: but [...] its is written in a very superficial manner, & indicates that he has touched Hebrew as the Mahometan did Paradise, with one foot.'

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

  

Thomas Brown : Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poetry knows the place of his soul [...] I have gone thro' every sentence of his "philosophy of the human mind", making clear to mine that he is so. With regard to cause and effect, I do not believe him, -- and on some other questions'.

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

  

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Ion

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'Have you seen Serjeant Talfourd's new tragedy, the Ion [...] He has been kind & flattering enough to send it to my publisher for me; & I read it thro' yesterday with much pleasure & admration. The tone of sentiment throughout it, is high & noble -- & the impression of the whole, like the sight of a hero. My fault finding is confined to a want of concentration, which I either perceive or fancy.'

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

  

Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling : autobiography

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'I have read lately Stilling's autobiography; & was by turns touched & amused by it. It is an instance of the durability of romance & sentiment. I read it in English of course'.

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets and Other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836: 'You have not my dear kind friend thought me unkind and thankless in not writing my gratitude to you the moment I felt it, for your books [...] [explains having waited until had time to do justice to these, including one of Mitford's own] [...] My pencil has marked Emily and Fair Rosamund and Henry Talbot The bridal Eve, The Captive & The masque of the Seasons as chief favorites of mine. My pencil always does for me the prudent business which beans & pebbles did for the heroes of childish romance .. marking his footsteps in the wood [...] In these paths, these new paths -- thank you dear Miss Mitford for letting me walk in them'.

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

  

Robert Browning : Paracelsus

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given himself a great deal of kind trouble in finding the Countess of Essex for me and of my reading it and Paracelsus besides which he also lent me. As to the play, its talent may be both felt & seen -- but felt & seen [italics]in parts[end italics] [...] But have you seen Paracelsus? I am a little discontented even [italics]there[end italics], & wd wish for more harmony & rather more clearness & compression [...] but I do think that the pulse of poetry is full & warm & strong in it [...] There is a palpable power! a height & depth of thought, -- & sudden repressed gushings of tenderness which suggest to us a depth beyond, in the affections. I wish you wd read it, & agree with me that the author is a poet in the holy sense. And I wish that some passages in the poem referring to the divine Being had been softened or removed. They sound to me daringly; and [italics]that[end italics] is not the appropriate daring of genius.'

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

  

Henry Shepherd : The Countess of Essex

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given himself a great deal of kind trouble in finding the Countess of Essex for me and of my reading it and Paracelsus besides which he also lent me. As to the play, its talent may be both felt & seen -- but felt & seen [italics]in parts[end italics] [...] But have you seen Paracelsus? I am a little discontented even [italics]there[end italics], & wd wish for more harmony & rather more clearness & compression [...] but I do think that the pulse of poetry is full & warm & strong in it [...] There is a palpable power! a height & depth of thought, -- & sudden repressed gushings of tenderness which suggest to us a depth beyond, in the affections. I wish you wd read it, & agree with me that the author is a poet in the holy sense. And I wish that some passages in the poem referring to the divine Being had been softened or removed. They sound to me daringly; and [italics]that[end italics] is not the appropriate daring of genius.'

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : 'Jesse Cliffe'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'Jesse Cliffe -- I have read it! [italics]Thank you for it![end italics] and you must hear that from so many!'

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

  

Alfred Tennyson : 'The Mermaid'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836: 'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have I -- but did you see his "mermaid" at the end of Leigh Hunt's paper on mermaids in the New Monthly Magazine? There is a tone in the poetry -- in the very extravagance of the poetry & language -- an abandonment & wildness -- which seemed to me to accord beautifully with the subject, & stayed with me afterwards -- a true sign of true poetry -- whether I would or not. And if there are [...] occasional perplexities & obscurations in the meaning -- still, no one could complain of them [italics]there[end italics] -- seeing that the language seems to have caught its strangeness with its music from the Mermaid's tongue.'

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

  

 : 'Saunders & Ottley's catalogue of new publications'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836: 'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have I -- but did you see his "mermaid" at the end of Leigh Hunt's paper on mermaids in the New Monthly Magazine? [...] I am very anxious to read something besides -- having seen in Saunder's & Ottley's catalogue of new publications -- [italics]A new novel by Miss Mitford[end italics]. How long are people to stand on tiptoe waiting for it?'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Advertisement, Unknown, catalogue

  

H.F. Chorley : Memorials of Mrs Hemans

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, c.29 August 1836: 'Mrs Lenox Conyngham's name had come to my ears but it was not familiar to them, -- & your brief account of her wd have interested me even if you had not said that she thought kindly of me. I am going to read her poems, & to go on reading Mr Chorley's Memorials. Shame upon me, you may think, for not having finished reading [italics]them[end italics] long ago!'

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

  

Sheridan Knowles : The Wrecker's Daughter

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 December 1836: 'I have been reading [...] Sheridan Knowles's play of "The Wreckers" [sic]. It is full of passion and pathos, -- & made me shed a great many tears.'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I have had little opportunity of walking with them in their purple & fine linen. Only [italics]extracts[end italics] from Bea[u]mont & Fletcher -- & Ford, -- have past before my eyes!'

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

  

John Ford : plays (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I have had little opportunity of walking with them in their purple & fine linen. Only [italics]extracts[end italics] from Bea[u]mont & Fletcher -- & Ford, -- have past before my eyes!'

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

  

Justin Martyr : Apologia Prima Pro Christianis (LVXI,2)

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837: 'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which struck me while I was reading him, on the subject of the Lord's supper [transcriptions follow from two works, in Greek].'

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

  

Justin Martyr : Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo, 70

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837: 'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which struck me while I was reading him, on the subject of the Lord's supper [transcriptions follow from two works, in Greek].'

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

  

George Combe : Elements of Phrenology

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837: 'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever, & amusing; but I do not think it logical or satisfactory.'

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

  

John Fletcher : The Faithful Shepherdess

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837: 'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shepherdess. The general conception & plan are feeble & imperfect -- do you not admit it? but the work in detail -- how prodigal it is in exquisite poetry'.

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Otto of Wittelsbach

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837: 'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest Miss Mitford, & so you will be obliged to read my admiration upon it [goes on to discuss text in detail]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Frances Anne Butler : The Star of Seville

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: 'Yes! the extracts from Mrs Butler's play, in the Athenaeum, are very beautiful -- and so are some others which I have seen in another paper.'

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

  

Lady Margaret Cocks : dramatic poems

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837: 'I am very much obliged by your kindness in allowing me to read the MS dramatic poems -- it seems to me that the character of your writing is not sufficiently concentrated & passionate for tragic poetry -- and that the moral beauty of gentle & tender & holy feeling is not eminent enough with glaring light & angular shadow, to constitute of itself the dramatic. Such a moral beauty -- & it pervades what you write -- is however a better & happier thing than dramatic excellence.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre : Translations from the Italian

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837: 'I have been much pleased lately in reading Lady Dacre's translations from Petrarch, which she has very kindly sent me. They are elegant & classical, -- & she has managed skilfully to double & redouble her rhymes in the manner of her original, & be graceful all the while.'

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

  

Charles Dickens : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I have not read every number [...] what is striking in him is his wonderful individuality -- He never or seldom sacrifices the natural to the comic -- but wins the jest from Nature without stealing it. No one could pass a character of his in the street without bowing.'

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

  

Frances Anne Butler : The Star of Seville

Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I have read the Star of Seville [...] It [italics]is[end italics] unequal -- it appears as if its writer stopped to take breath after her finest things -- and she has written some very fine things. You will admire Estrella's apology for her appearance [italics]alone[end italics], at the trial scene. It touched me deeply'.

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Country Stories

Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837: 'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to say of ourselves, when the "Country stories" lie cut & read upon the table? They have the Mitford-charm all over them! [..] The characteristic of your mind seems to be -- the power of bringing from the surfaces of things that freshness of beauty, which others seek from in the profundities of nature [...] Indeed it is a beautiful book'.

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

  

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Age of Bronze

Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837: 'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's Tears," about Queen Victoria's weeping during the Accession Proclamation on 21 June] finding their way into a Belford Regis newspaper! The young Queen is very interesting to me -- & those tears [...] are beautiful & touching to think upon. Do you remember Lord Byron's bitter lines [...] '"Enough of human ties in royal breasts! Why spare men's feelings when their own are jests?" 'They have never past from my memory since I read them. There is something hardening, I fear, in power [...] But our young Queen wears still a very tender heart! and long may its natural emotions lie warm within it!'

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

  

 : death notice for Harriet Baker (d.17 August)

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I have seen in the papers, the death of a beloved friend of yours, & of one for whom I myself had a true esteem [...] The illness of dear Miss Baker was known to me a very short time before the last news came.'

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

  

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Jungfrau von Orleans

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.

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

  

J. C. F. von Schiller : Maria Stuart

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.

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

  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Gotz von Berlichingen mit der eisenen Hand

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.

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

  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Egmont

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [...] even the German has not been studied or looked at much -- except a few tragedies of Schiller's & Goethe's seen by glimpses. Of these, I like Jean better than Mary Stuart, & him of the Iron hand less than Egmont'.

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

  

Charles Lamb : Letters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His Life

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'Has your Ladyship seen Lamb's letters, in Mr Talfourd's edition? I quite [italics]sighed[end italics] when I finished them. They are exquisite -- & the "gentle-hearted Charles" [quotes Coleridge] shows in them all his gentle heart, together with his very quaint sly brilliant (as [italics]star[end italics]light) fancies.'

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

  

Lady Mary Wortley Montague : Letters

Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 29 September 1837: 'I confess to you that I utterly dislike Lady Mary! [...] She had a hard shining imagination, instead of a heart -- and words studied into carelessness, beating up & down, where warm natural woman pulses ought to have beat. She had too little depth for manhood, -- & too little softness for womanhood. Take away the corner stone & the top stone from Horace Walpole's imagination -- or rather, take away what poetry he had -- & dress him up in a hoop -- & there is Lady Mary Wortley Montague ready for court!! ---- I never could bear her -- or Horace Walpole either -- and whenever I have looked at her letters, I have felt too much out of humour to be amused.' '

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Letter to Elizabeth Barrett

Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 September 1837: 'You certainly shd write Dash [Mitford's dog]'s memoirs! My youngest brothers, to say nothing of my eldest, were delighted with the [italics]memorabilia[end italics], I read to them out of your letter.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

Frances Trollope : The Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837: 'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me of the Vicar of Wrexhill -- at least of the extracts I have seen from it! -- What a lamentable book -- & to be written by a woman -- who from the weakness & softness of her nature should so feel the need & the beauty of that strength & surpassing tenderness found in the religion of Jesus Christ, & only there! -- It is very ill to hold up to scorn the most unsecular portion of the Church of England -- but to do so by misrepresen[ta]tion & perversion is most ill! [goes on to complain further regarding representation of religious characters, and quotation from Scripture, in text]'

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

  

Jane Porter : novels

Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 November 1837: 'Hearing of Miss Porter is like being a child again. I remember weeping & wailing over her romances, when I had nothing besides to weep and wail for. Whatever their faults may be, they have in them an elevation & an heroism which this learned age wd do well to learn.'

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

  

Anna Seward : Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 January 1838: 'In my childish days & for some days afterwards I have read & re-read Miss Seward's Letters. They had a charm for me notwithstanding their vanity & elaborateness & bombast; and that charm was from the earnest love of poetic literature with which they are penetrated, & the generous thoughts & feelings which light them up.'

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

  

John Kenyon : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838: 'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I have had in reading these poems -- so full of strong thoughts & lovely stedfast feelings [...] "Moonlight" is full of beauty [...] Of the "occasional verses" [...] I like least the "neglected wife" & like most [...] "music" -- & "Bromfield Churchyard", & "Reminiscence", & the "Two harps" & the powerful "Destiny"'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

 : advertisement for rare antique Bible

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.26 February 1838: 'I saw the following advertisement in the Athenaeum of Saturday, & believing that it may interest you, do not delay to send it [reproduces advertisement for sale of 1539 folio edition of Cranmer's Bible]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

  

Henry Alford : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838: 'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a want of abiding power[end italics]. Do you not think so? -- It might be a fault in my humour at the time I read them.'

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

  

Samuel Garth : The Dispensary, a Poem

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: '[To] satisfy some curiosity, [I] have been reading Garth's "Dispensary," a poem very worthy of its subject'.

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : "The Exile"

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: 'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with much interest and delight'.

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

  

Richard Monckton Milnes : Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and Historical Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838: 'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Milnes's Poems just printed for private circulation. They are of the Tennyson school [...] & very much delighted me.'

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

  

John Kenyon : "The Greek Wife"

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838: 'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silence, even if she had a little to say [goes on to discuss piece in detail] Thank you for the great pleasure I have had in reading this poem -- Its concluding stanzas are animated & forcible, & leave an impression'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

John Edmund Reade : Italy

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838: 'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before I opened your letter'.

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

  

Thomas Noon Talfourd : The Athenian Captive

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Noon Talfourd, 13 June 1838: 'Miss Barrett presents her compliments to Mr Serjeant Talfourd, and desires to express to him her thankfulness both for his very obliging note [of 2 June 1838], and also and in particular for the valued present accompanying it. She is glad to be able to associate with the true pleasure with which she lately read his beautiful play, the gratification of now receiving it from its author.'

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

  

Henry Fothergill Chorley : letter (extract)

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 June 1838: 'I have seen an extract from a private letter of Mr Chorley editor of the Athenaeum, which speaks [italics]huge[end italics] praises of my poems. If he were to say a tithe of them in print it wd be nine times above my expectation!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

Richard Edwin Austin Townsend : Visions of the Western Railways

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 June 1838: 'Mr Townsend's poems have just reached me. I have had no time to read them, except at a rail road speed, & that not continuously. They seem to have much thought & poetic beauty'.

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

  

Richard Edwin Austin Townsend : Visions of the Western Railways

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838: 'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]did[end italics] read the romance of Mr Osggood [sic].'

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

  

Frances Sargent Osgood : 'romance'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838: 'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]did[end italics] read the romance of Mr Osggood [sic].'

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

  

Madame de Grandrion : Duty and Inclination

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 September 1838: 'I "remind you" to tell me all about Miss Landon's husband. I have a full conviction that he is the author of [italics]Duty and Inclination[end italics], of which I could only read the first volume. The reason of my conviction is, that it is unaccountable otherwise how Miss Landon could consent to edit & [italics]praise[end italics] such -- -- trash.'

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

  

 : Findens' Tableaux of the Affections: A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 October 1838: 'I did not receive Finden immediately. I had desired Papa to unpack & take possession of it -- because I fancied [...] it might be a pleasure to him. From this arrangement I have scarcely finished my own vision of the beautiful volume [goes on to discuss contents of anthology in detail, praising Mitford's pieces in it, as well as other contents including poetry by Richard Edwin Austin Townsend, John Chorley, and Henry Chorley; also thanks Mitford, editor of volume, for manner in which she presented Barrett's own contribution, 'The Romaunt of the Page']'.

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

  

Theodosia Garrow : poems 'The Gazelles' and 'On Presenting a Young Invalid With a Bunch of Early Violets'

Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, late November 1838: 'I cannot return the [italics]Book of Beauty[end italics] to Miss Garrow without thanking her for allowing me to read in it sooner than I should otherwise have done, those contributions of her own which help to justify its title, and which are indeed sweet and touching verses.'

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

  

J. C. F. von Schiller : Die Rauber

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 March 1839: 'I like Schiller's Robbers better than any other play of his I have read.'

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

  

Lancelot Andrewes : Sermons

Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'What can I do bound hand and foot in this wilderness, in the way of book-ferreting? with a physician who groans in the spirit whenever he sees within my reach any book larger & graver looking than "the last new octavo neatly bound"? [...] but you tempted me with Bishop Andrews, the Bishop is in folio, & I was in an obstinate fit -- & I [italics]did[end italics] read -- -- & [italics]was[end italics] scolded'.

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

  

John Edmund Reade : Italy

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'Mr Reade has power [...] both of thought & language [...] It [Italy] is the only poem of Mr Reade's I ever read [...] I may confess to [italics]you[end italics] that it [italics]provoked[end italics] me [i.e. with imitation of Byron]'.

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

  

John Parkhurst : An Hebrew and English Lexicon

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dictionaries are excellent for [italics]distraction[end italics]. Just at such a time .. when we were leaving Herefordshire .. I pinned myself down to Hebrew, took Parkhurst & Professor Lee for my familiars, & went through the Hebrew Bible form Genesis to Malachi, Syrica & all, as if I were studying for a professorship, -- & never once halting for breath. But I do hope & trust to learn no more languages. There is no mental exertion, per se so little beneficial to the mind.'

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

  

Samuel Lee : A Grammar of the Hebrew Language

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dictionaries are excellent for [italics]distraction[end italics]. Just at such a time .. when we were leaving Herefordshire .. I pinned myself down to Hebrew, took Parkhurst & Professor Lee for my familiars, & went through the Hebrew Bible form Genesis to Malachi, Syrica & all, as if I were studying for a professorship, -- & never once halting for breath. But I do hope & trust to learn no more languages. There is no mental exertion, per se so little beneficial to the mind.'

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

  

Rosina, Lady Bulwer-Lytton : Cheveley, or the Man of Honour

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839: 'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end italics] I can confess with one blush less that I have just read it through. People obliged to be dumb like me, & under a medical disciplinarian like Dr Barry have as good an excuse as any can have for reading it [...] The book, if not the reader, is without excuse. It is wonderful in unwomanliness [...] The book is a hard cold coarse book -- a bold impudent book -- & she who wrote it may have COUNTED many strifes but has [italics]felt[end italics] none'.

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

  

William Fullerton Cumming, M.D. : Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey; Up the Danube and Down the Rhine

Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 4 June 1839: ''[Dr Barry] has been lending me his friend & patient Dr Cummings book, to read -- "Wanderings in search of Health" [...] His adventures in wandering down the Nile in search of health inclined me to laugh as much as his confession that he was "a physician in search of it'"'.

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

  

Theodosia Garrow : stanzas on the death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1839: 'I do not know whether Miss Garrow does or does not write ballads [...] I have seen no writing of her's except what was published in Lady Blessington's annual last year, & some stanzas in MS. upon LEL's death, which appeared to me rather inferior to the rest. Her verses are, in my mind, to judge from these specimens, graceful & feeling, without much indication of either mounting or sinking into other characteristics'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Samuel Naylor : Ceracchi, a Drama and other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 13-14 July 1839: 'I told [Mr Naylor] [...] that the gift of his book was the more gratifying to me as coming from a friend of Miss [Mary Russell] Mitford. Praising the poetry of it generally, was quite out of the question. It is an excellent [italics]mimicry from le comique[end italics] of Tennyson -- Tennyson's mannerism & peculiarities [end italics]without his genius[end italics]. I felt myself quite laughing while I was reading some things in it.'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 August 1839: 'I a personally quite unacquainted with Mr Horne [...] Have you not heard of his Cosimo de' Medici? He is a man of indubitable genius. I feel THAT quite distinctly, although I have read only a little of his poetry'.

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

  

Henry Fothergill Chorley : The Lion, a Tale of the Coteries

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'I have read Mr Chorley's Lion [...] it is a work highly indicative of ability [...] brilliant with allusion, yet not too dazzling to think by. A great part of the first volume & the greater part of the third struck & interested me much'.

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

  

Henry Fothergill Chorley : Sketches of a Sea Port Town

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'Mr Chorley's Sea port town was brought to me a little while ago -- but not as Mr Chorley's. Henrietta [sister] brought it from the circulating library -- The [italics] librarian had recommended it![end italics] -- & I am so forced to be dumb & to abstain from continuous attention to grave subjects, that amusing books of the class to which it belongs are necessary to me sometimes. Well! I did not like the name of the book -- & was turning listlessly to the title page with the words "I cant read this", -- when [italics]there[end italics], was Mr Chorley's name! Of course I [italics]cd[end italics] read it immediately, -- & was much struck by the power it indicated, & the constructiveness of the stories -- a rare characteristic, even in these story telling days.'

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

  

anon  : Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter

Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839: 'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end italics] [water excursion] yesterday, to do more than feel very pleased & honored too, by Mr Landor's gift. Thank you for conveying it to me [...] The Admiral's daughter is the second of the "[italics]Two old men's tales[end italics]". I read it upon its publication several years ago, & was much struck with its passion & intensity'.

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

  

Eliza Cook : Melaia, and Other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1839: 'I have lately held within my hands Miss Eliza Cook's poems [...] [comments upon book's introduction and frontispiece] [...] The sight of the book & its whole tone amused me very much. For the rest I cd read nothing in it worth reading again.'

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

  

 : Catalogue of library of Samuel Parr

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1840: '[Dr Scully (physician attending Barrett)] brought me a book last week, a catalogue raisonne of Dr Parr's Library in which, among the Patres ecclesiastici "my heart leaped up to see'" the mention of your select passages [from writings of SS Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzen, and Basil] -- by S. Boyd, [italics]1810[end italics]. No observation upon it.'

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

  

Catherine Gore : Preferment: or, My Uncle the Earl

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable cleverness, is dull & heavy [...] As to "One fault", with neither dulness nor heaviness, the book seems to [italics]me[end italics] far less clever than Mrs Trollope's books generally or always are [goes on to discuss aspects of this text, including plot, further]'.

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

  

Frances Trollope : One Fault. A Novel

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable cleverness, is dull & heavy [...] As to "One fault", with neither dulness nor heaviness, the book seems to [italics]me[end italics] far less clever than Mrs Trollope's books generally or always are [goes on to discuss aspects of this text, including plot, further]'.

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

  

Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck : Select Memoirs of Port Royal

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated partly composed by Miss Schimmelpenninck, of the Port Royal? It is long since I read, will be longer before I forget that most interesting account of the most interesting establishment which ever owed its conventual name & form to the Church of Rome, & its purity & nobility to God's blessing & informing Spirit'.

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

  

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments

Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840: ''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I have finished Shelley's volumes which, if it were not for the here & there defilement of his atrocious opinions [...] would have very deeply delighted me. As it is there are traces of my pencil "[italics]in a passion[end italics]" as dear Georgie [brother] would say. [goes on to criticise Shelley's translations from Plato in particular]'

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

  

 : Review of William Reade's poems Italy and The Deluge

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, mid-February 1840: 'Did you ever hear how poor Mr Reade has compromised himself with Fraser .. in the magazine? [...] how Fraser reviewed his poetry savagely last December or January, & published at full length still more savagely divers applications & submissions which the poet had addressed to his private tender mercies [...] It made my blood run cold with sympathy for the poor poet when I read it first.'

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

  

William Merry : The Philosophy of a Happy Futurity est. on the Sure Evidence of the Bible

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 February 1840: 'I never received Mr Merry's book until a very few days since. Wasn't it too bad of my dear people in Wimpole Street? [...] they [...] kept the book until boots, & shoes enough for a colony cd be made -- allowing for that corresponding genius of procrastination common to shoemakers. I really was ashamed to write to you until I had the book -- & when I had it I read it off my conscience & wrote to Mr Merry'.

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

  

Leigh Hunt : A Legend of Florence

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840: 'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - & although your remark upon the versification seems to me not without its verity -- I do think it a beautiful & most touching play [goes on to discuss specific passages]'.

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

  

George Darley : Sylvia; or, The May Queen

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 March 1840: 'I [italics]have[end italics] Sylvia or the May Queen among my books in London. Dont you remember telling me to read it, & did'n't I obey you & buy it directly? It overflows with poetry [...] but does as pastorals can scarcely choose but do, hold on to one by the skirts of one's fancy rather than by the imagination in a high sense'.

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : The History of Napoleon

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 May 1840: 'I had finished Napoleon & was about to write to you on the subject -- & I will still write.'

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

  

George Darley : Thomas a Becket

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1840: 'Have you given up the idea of seeing Mr Darley's book again -- It chaperons or is chaperoned by some Devonshire cream -- but I beg you to remember that the stains upon its back came to me as they go, and proceeded from neither cream nor me -- The chronicle is very clever & spirited -- picturesque & racy -- & the character of Becket appears to me developped [sic] with no ordinary power: at the same time I confess myself disappointed in the absence of tragic passion & concentration'.

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

  

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Glencoe

Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840: '["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [...] Thank you my dearest Georgie! [...] It was, as you well knew it wd be, a great pleasure to me to look into Glencoe -- and yet the play is to my mind, a failure [...] High & tender thoughts there are, gracefully & harmoniously expressed -- which is not [italics]being tragic[end italics]!'

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village

Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840: 'You cant guess what my business has been lately [...] my business has been retracing my steps in the Village, your village [...] You cannot realize, -- you the writer -- cannot, -- the peculiar effect of that delightful book, upon one in a prison like me, shut up from air & light [...] It frees me at once for the moment -- shows me the flowers & the grass they grow by, & pours into my face the sweetness & freshness & refreshment of the whole summer in a breath.'

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

  

Thomas Powell : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Powell, 24 December 1840: 'It is right to apprize you of the safe arrival [of book from Powell] [...] I see the Monthly Chronicle -- & had read some of the poems which accompanied the book.'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : response to article in the Monthly Critic

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, late January 1841: 'I have just read your reply to the Monthly Critic -- though not his attack'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Robert Montgomery Bird : Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 February 1841: 'If you are looking out for romances to melt away the sense of snow & long evenings from your invalid [i.e. Mitford's father], there is the American Dr Bird's "Nick of the Woods" -- which for adventure & hair breadth escapes & rapid movement from the beginning to the end, will charm you far above the freezing point, though face to face with a thermometer. I recommend to you "Nick of the Woods". I read it lately myself, & went forthwith by metempsychosis into a pilgrim of those vast sighing forests'.

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : 'Orpheus'

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 10 March 1841: 'I have seen Orpheus, & write just to thank you for the pleasure of the vision [...] You have gathered power, intensity, freedom of versification -- But in my brain ---- "slow the Argo ploughs her way LIke a dun dragon spreading moonlit wings", to suggest certain unsurpassable lines.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury : The History of a Flirt: Related by Herself

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Before I forget again .. have you looked into the "History of a flirt"? The name may daunt you -- but the writer "leans to Miss Austen's side" [...] There is nothing high toned or passionate -- & supposing you safely over the monotony of the subject & the odiousness of the heroine, it may not prove heavy reading for your evenings [...] It did indeed strike me as one of the very best domestic novels which have fallen upon these evil days.'

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

  

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Poor LEL! Just as she had outstretched her hand to touch nature, & to feel thrillingly there that is poetry is more than fantasy .. to die so! I have dropped tears on tears over some of her later poems'.

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

  

Robert Browning : Pippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841: 'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" .. comprehension, I was going to say! [...] There are fine things in it -- & the presence of genius, never to be denied! -- At the same time it is hard .. [italics]to understand[end italics] -- is'nt it?'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 August 1841: 'I have seen & read [italics]the book[end italics] [...] It is written by an enthusiast in the cause of genius upon the spectacle of its misery, lighted up to ghastliness by the torchlight of [Isaac] D'Israeli & other memorialists [...] Its thunderbolts are hurled against all false media -- such as interpose between men of genius & the public, in the form of [italic]readers[end italics] for publishers & Theatrical managers, &c &c [...] There is, in fact, with much talent & power, a sufficiency of acrimony & indiscretion [...] notwithstanding the sense forced upon me of the overweight of certain words -- I did feel myself taken off my feet & carried along in the brave strong generous current of the spirit of the book -- It is a fearless book, with fine thoughts on a stirring subject'.

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : 'On the Portrait of the Duchess of Burlington, Painted after her Death by Mr Lucas'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: 'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athenaeum! -- Lady Burlington's I mean!'

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

  

Theodosia Garrow : 'The Doom of Cheynholme'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon estimate of it. Mr Landor, you know, says "Sappho" -- and Mr Kenyon says [...] "wonderful genius!" [...] The best poem I have seen of hers, is the Ballad in Lady Blessington's Keepsake for next year [...] and I think & feel of that ballad as of the rest, that it is flowingly & softly written, with no trace of the thing called genius [...] It is right to admit that I have seen only four or five poems -- but those were selected ones .. for Lady Blessington -- (two selected by Mr Landor)'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Theodosia Garrow : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon estimate of it. Mr Landor, you know, says "Sappho" -- and Mr Kenyon says [...] "wonderful genius!" [...] The best poem I have seen of hers, is the Ballad in Lady Blessington's Keepsake for next year [...] and I think & feel of that ballad as of the rest, that it is flowingly & softly written, with no trace of the thing called genius [...] It is right to admit that I have seen only four or five poems -- but those were selected ones .. for Lady Blessington -- (two selected by Mr Landor)'.

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

  

Benjamin Robert Haydon : letters to Mary Russell Mitford

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 September 1841: 'Mr Haydon's letters shut up in the best letter of all [i.e. one from Mitford], I received this morning & will return to you in a day or two. I must let Papa just look at them. They interested me much [...] How fine this life of genius is! -- & its religion too! [...] I like these letters. They spring up like a fountain among the world's conventionalities'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

George Stephens : Martinuzzi

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841: 'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago [...] Martinuzzzi is in a course of performance still [...] After the fatal first night, sundry corrections & reformations were made in the tragedy [...] The tragedy has fine things in it, but not very frequently & always broken into chips [...] Mr Horne lent me the play -- & now I have to stutter out the truth to him in all courtesy.'

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

  

Washington Irving : Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 October 1841: 'I had heard of Lucretia Davidson, in a passing way, & I never read her memoir. Therefore notwithstanding the obviousness of the influence of her memory, the book you sent me suggested something better & brighter than an "imitation." [...] there is, I think (in the midst of the muck which is mere [italics]warbling[end italics]) indication of something capable of growth & survival beyond the hour of excitement & desease [...] It is a natural question to ask -- "Was it genius -- or a show?" -- and in the multitude of rhymings I stopped to ask it [...] Was Lucretia older than her sister at the time of death? -- & was her poetry more promising? [...] It is an interesting memoir [...] I thought it very painful. I would willingly hope that she was something more than a precocious prodigy.'

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

  

John Kenyon : 'Upper Austria'

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 10 November 1841: 'I have been wandering in Lower Austria [sic] -- very much pleased -- by the help of your music-tongued & smiling philosophy.'

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

  

Theodosia Garrow : poem on death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1841, having recommended she read Theodosia Garrow's narrative poem 'The Doom of Cheynholme' in The Keepsake For 1842: 'You may like it better than I do [...] Individuality & inspiration I do [italics]not[end italics] find in her. Enclosed is a paper I laid my hand on this morning -- some stanzas of hers on poor LEL's death, & in her own autograph. Read it & tell me what you think'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

John A. Heraud : The Roman Brother: A Tragedy

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 November 1841: 'The Roman Brother -- & thank you! -- There are fine things in it -- very -- but it wants continuity, interest altogether -- & leaves you cold as a stone.'

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

  

R. M. Milnes : One Tract More, or, The System Illustrated by "The Tracts for the Times," Externally Regarded: by a Layman

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1841: 'What a singular movement is this Puseyite one [...] Mr Milnes is a Puseyite & wrote the "One tract more," which I read at Torquay by grace of Mr Kenyon's kindness, but thought little of.'

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

  

Ann Radcliffe : Gaston de Blondeville

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville". perhaps you don't know it, but I am, have been .. in all sorts of tenses -- a profound reader of romances. I have read Gaston [...] The fault of Mrs Radcliffe's preceeding works was her want of courage in not following back the instincts of our nature to their possible causes. She made the instinct toward the supernatural too prominent, to deny & belie the thing [...] Can anything be more irritating than the Key to her mysteries [...]? 'Just in proportion to the degree of this disagreeableness, is Gaston better & nobler in [italics]design[end italics]. Inasmuch as the ghost is real, it is excellent, but inasmuch as the book hath three volumes (or two) -- it is naught. It did hang upon me (with all its advantages as a ghost story) with a weight from which her preceeding works are sacred. It quite disappointed me! [...] the whole appeared to me heavy & not impressive -- &, what is strange, not so terrible with its actual marvels, as were the waxen mimicries of the Castle of Otranto.'

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

  

Thomas J. Serle : Joan of Arc

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville" [...] And I have been reading your Mr Serle's Joan of Arc -- confessing with you the talent of the book, while I groaned a little under the heaviness [...] Joan is not very interesting -- true & beautiful as is the aspect she wears. She is seen as in a picture -- attitude, countenance -- but we dont feel her heart beat -- we know nothing of her inward life.'

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

  

Anna Brownell Jameson : writings including Conversations on the State of Art and Literature in Germany (1837)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'Mrs Jameson's early writings -- the Ennuyee for instance -- have an adroit leaning to sentiment, which is [italics]sentimentality[end italics], & provokes one the more for the excellent taste observable & admirable even there. In her later books, I do, I confess, see much to admire. The conversations, for instance, on the state of art & literature in Germany .. oh surely, we cannot all but admire their acuteness & eloquence & high intonation.'

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

  

Frances Trollope : The Blue Belles of England

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'Have you read the "Blue Belles"? Do -- it is very clever -- and besides I want you to send me the little key which belongs to the personalities. Who is Lady Dort? -- & Mrs Stewart Gardiner? Who is the painter? It is very clever -- good for its bad class!'

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

  

Joseph Hunter : A Disquisition on the Scene, Origin, Date, etc. of Shakespeare's Tempest

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I did not complain of the briefness of the vision [...] I do hate all those geographical statistical historical yea, & natural-historical illustrators of a great poet [...] I dont care a grain of sand on the shore whether Prospero's island was Bermuda or Lampedusa! [goes on to make more detailed criticisms of this text, and the attempts in it to identify real-life origins of Shakespeare's settings and characters]'

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

  

Henry Alford : Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I did not complain of the briefness of the vision [...] I have been reading too by the same grace .. of dear Mr Kenyon .. Mr Alford's Chapters on the Greek poets. I dont like them at all. Such criticism, on the surface & of long familiarity with the common eye, the sense of the world has outgrown. It wd have done for those days when poetry was considered a pretty play like skittles, but is not suitable to this [italics]now[end italics], when its popularity as a toy is passed, & its depth & holiness as a science more surely tho' partially regarded.'

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

  

Thomas Westwood : Note to Elizabeth Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 7 January 1842: 'Miss Barrett -- inferring Mr Westwood from the handwriting, -- begs his acceptance of the unworthy little book [Barret's An Essay on Mind] he does her the honour of desiring to see [...] Will he receive at the same moment, the expression of the touched & gratified feelings with which Miss Barrett read what he wrote on the subject of her later volumes [...] she is thankful for what he said so kindly in his note to her'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

 : Poetae Graeci Christiani, una cum Homericus Centonibus

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1842: 'I have won a sight of the Poetae Christiani -- but the price is ruinous -- [italics]fourteen guineas[end italics] -- and then the work consists almost entirely of Latin poets -- deducting Gregory & Nonnus, and John Damascenus & a cento from Homer by somebody or other -- Turning the leaves rapidly I do not see much else'.

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : Alsargis

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 18 January 1842: 'What can you have thought, my dear Mr Horne, of all this loitering with your tragedy? [...] Here it is all safe back for you [...] thank you, thank you, twice over, for all the -- -- -- [italics]pleasure[end italics] is the wrong word -- -- -- [italics]sensation[end italics] is not quite right -- the [italics]emotion[end italics], which this fine tragedy has given me [goes on to comment upon text in detail]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Thomas Westwood : Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842: 'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] very grateful to you for the gift of your poems [...] my pencil has marked my favourites. I like, among others, that song with the pretty wild measure, about the summer, and the song to spring about the "bright-vein'd flowers"'.

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

  

Frances Burney : Diary and Letters (Volume 1)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842: 'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end italics] make! There is certainly a [italics]consciousness[end italics] which combined with the egoism & the Evelinaism "in saecula saeculorum", suggests no idea of modesty, real modesty [...] And thus I do not worship the "dear little Burney" as a fair incarnate modesty [...] But I do like her book -- I do think it full of living pulses & delightfulness, & my heart leaps up at the hum of work-day life issuing thus from the tomb-door of that dead generation. Oh -- do read the book -- I mean, at once -- read it at once.'

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

  

Margaret Baron-Wilson : The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842: 'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside Hayley's Autobiography [goes on to criticise these texts in detail]'.

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

  

William Hayley : Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq ... Written by Himself

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842: 'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside Hayley's Autobiography [goes on to criticise these texts in detail]'.

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

  

 : De legibus

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went thorugh the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.

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

  

Plato  : Works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.

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

  

 : works attributed to Plato

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic]with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.

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

  

Aeschylus  : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.

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

  

Sophocles  : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.

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

  

Euripides  : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...] both before & since I went there. You know I have gone through every line of the three tragedians, long ago, in the way of regular, consecutive reading. 'You know also that I had at different times read different dialogues of Plato: but when three years ago, & a few months previous to my leaving home, I became possessed of a complete edition of his works edited by Bekker, why then I began with the first volume & went through the whole of his writings [...] one after another, -- & have at this time read all that is properly attributed to Plato, but even those dialogues & epistles which pass falsely under his name, -- everything except two books I think, or three, of that treatise "De legibus" which I shall finish in a week or two'.

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

  

Aristotle  : Poetics

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regularly into both hands when I finish Plato's last page.'

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

  

Aristotle  : Ethics

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regularly into both hands when I finish Plato's last page.'

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

  

Aristotle  : 'work upon rhetoric'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regularly into both hands when I finish Plato's last page.'

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

  

Jean Francois Marmontel : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 March 1842: 'I [italics]have[end italics] read Marmontel's memoirs .. & a most amusing book it is'.

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

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Zanoni

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842: 'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much in it, one wd yearn to see cast out of it, in reverence to the unity of the whole [goes on to comment on text in further detail]'.

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

  

Samuel Richardson : Correspondence

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842: 'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming" being the right word, since I verily & indeed believed myself wrapt up close in the domestic brocades of the Harlowe family, all the time I spent in reading it. His own letters are letters out of his romances to the very crossing of the t[']s [...] Lady Bradleigh [sic] is delightful -- -- I don't wonder that he tired himself with pacing up & down Hyde Park in his desire to catch a glimpse of her! [...] I read that volume with quite a romance-palpitation. Thank you, thank you for telling me of the book'.

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

  

Richard Edwin Austin Townsend : poem on the departure and farewell sermon of George Augustus Selwyn, on his being appointed Bishop of New Zealand

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842: 'I like this waste of the public money upon bishops of New Zealand!! [...] as little as you do, & have ventured to be open with Mr Townsend & tell him as much. The utter absurdity [...] of forcing out the forms & ceremonies of this Parliament church, out among the savages, I cd even cry over in utter vexation [...] let those who are sent, be [italics]missionaries[end italics]. The bishops are impotent [...] in all situations of the kind -- & as I ventured to tell Mr Townsend, the martyr soul of poor Williams was the true Bishop-soul for the South Seas. 'There is great sweetness in his little poem to be sure -- a few lines together which one smiles over to oneself as for pleasure. Still -- what a subject!'

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

  

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'

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

  

Philip Massinger : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'

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

  

Ben Jonson : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'

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

  

 : Select Collection of Old Plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end italics] [...] and how it has been declared that no theatre can exist at the present day without a saloon -- & how, if it could, the effect wd be to force vicious persons & their indecencies into full view in the boxes --!! Now this appears to me enough to constitute a repulsive objection! & I who have read hard at the old dramatists since I last spoke to you about them, -- Beaumont & Fletcher Massinger Ben Jonson all Dodsley's collection, -- can yet see that objection in all its repulsiveness! .. & read on!'

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

  

Daniel Defoe : Memoirs of a Cavalier

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me much, except Robinson Crusoe & The Plague'.

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

  

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me much, except Robinson Crusoe & The Plague'.

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

  

Daniel Defoe : A Journal of the Plague Year

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me much, except Robinson Crusoe & The Plague'.

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

  

Ralph Waldo Emerson : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 30 March 1842: 'I have been reading Emerson -- He does away with individuality & personality in a most extraordinary manner -- teaching that [...] every man's being is a kind of Portico to the God Over-soul -- with Deity for background [...] there are heresies as thick as blackberries. Still the occasional beauty of thought & expression, & the noble erectness of the thinking faculty gave me "wherewithal to glory".'

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

  

James Russell Lowell : A Year's Life

Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 March 1842: 'I beg you at last to receive my very earnest thanks for the volume of graceful poetry which I received from you some months ago through the hands of our mutual friend Mr Kenyon [...] There is a natural bloom upon the poems, a one-heartedness with nature, which is very pleasant to me to recognize [...] I hope that you will write on'.

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

  

John Kenyon : A Rhymed Plea for Tolerance

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'The "Rhymed Plea" is admirable "after its kind" -- but with all my true & admiring regard for its author & his writings I could not be content to receive it as sole comforter for the absence of higher inspirations.'

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

  

Agnes Maria Bennett : The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'I read the Beggar girl, when I was very young'.

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

  

Robert Southey (ed) : The Works of William Cowper, Esq., ... With a Life of the Author

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 April 1842: 'The best and fullest biography [of William Cowper] in all ways appears to be poor Southey's -- the life published together with the works a few years ago [...] I read the book some years ago -- Mr Kenyon lent it to me'.

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

  

William Wordsworth : Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842: 'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great many thanks. 'The Tragedy will be considered probably "naught" as a whole, but of considerable entity of beauty in its detached parts. It appears to [italics]me[end italics] that there are even fine dramatic touches in it although it is not a fine tragedy [...] For the rest -- there is much which is beautiful & powerful -- only you have [end italics]to dig for it[end italics] -- Do read the sonnets to the painter .. & the next palinodia sonnet -- & the one beginning "A Poet" -- & that composed on May morning 1838'.

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

  

William Wordsworth : Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 April 1842: 'Dear Mr Kenyon lent me Wordsworth's new volume two days ago -- & I have read the last line & end gratefully to the poet. The tragedy [italics]fails[end italics] [...] yet has more dramatic feature occasionally than I had expected to find [...] Among the other poems there are some four or five sonnets which are supremely excellent [makes other criticisms]'.

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

  

Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightful -- yet I am only just now reading them -- & the Duc de St Simon's also. I have a sort of Memoir brain fever at the present season-- Don't you think so?'

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

  

Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightful -- yet I am only just now reading them -- & the Duc de St Simon's also. I have a sort of Memoir brain fever at the present season-- Don't you think so?'

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

  

Mary Russell Mitford : letter to Elizabeth Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 May 1842: 'I cdnt help reading to Crow your beautiful story of your Flush [dog] [...] mine immediately took up the gesture of listening intently gathering his ears over his great eyes as if he saw a hare [...] & patting about his little paws everytime the word [...] "Flush" occurred. Be sure he thought I was reading about [italics]him[end italics]!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

Alfred Tennyson : Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842: 'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine Tennyson [...] But notwithstanding the poetry of the novelties -- & you will observe that his two preceding volumes (only one of which I had seen before .. having enquired for the other vainly) are included in these two, -- nothing appears to me quite equal to Oenone [...] That is not said in disparagement of the last, but in admiration of the first. There is in fact more thought, more bare brave working of the intellect in the later poems, even if we miss some of the high ideality, & the music that goes with it, of the older ones.'

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

  

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays: First Series

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1841: 'Yes [...] to [having read] Emerson's letters [sic]. Or rather, yes, to the letters, & "no" to Carlyle's preface -- because I read the American edition. Mr Kenyon lent the book to me, the book belonging to Mr Crabbe Robinson whose hair stood on end when he heard of its being lent to me! "Why" he said "that book is too stiff even for myself -- and I am not very orthodox." In fact the book [...] is very extravagant in some of its views. It sets about destroying [...] the personality of every person, & speaks of the Deity as of a great Background to which every created individual forms a little porch!!! For the rest, there are beautiful & noble thoughts in the book, beautifully & nobly said.'

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

  

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1842: 'I read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic] when I was thirteen: no, twelve! .. and, through the whole course of my childhood, I had a steady indignation against Nature who made me a woman, & a determinate resolution to dress up in men's clothes as soon as ever I was free of the nursery'.

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

  

Ellen Pickering : novels

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 July 1842: 'If our dear Mr Kenyon should turn out to be bewitched [by Ellen Pickering], it was not achieved by the novels. He keeps Wordsworth & Tennyson in his house until weeks count up into months without reading a page of them: he is not likely to read a Miss P. But I who read more of good & bad than I dare confess, & who of late years [as invalid] have stretched out my hand for literature, more sometimes to be languid & half asleep over than for thoughtful purpose, know her novels very well, & have found the degree of amusement or beguilement I sought, from several of them. Nobody can praise them for good writing to be sure, -- nor for any other sort of elevation above the commonplace [...] But there is a degree of amusement to be confessed in the books -- at least by me when I am sleepy -- & there is an amiableness & good feeling which I was always pleased to confess.'

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

  

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna : 'little books'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842: 'As to Charlotte Elizabeth -- yes, I have read that little book you speak of, & several of her little books besides. Her bitterness & narrowness towards the R Catholics [...] I admit & lament to the roots of my heart. She is a very devoted woman, & lives to God nearly as if she lived with Him -- and I believe that in exciting religious feeling her books have done much good & especially among the young.'

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

  

Samuel Romilly : Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Written by Himself

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842: 'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an enthusiast about [italics]him[end italics] [...] it is wonderful & chilling to me, his unconsciousness, -- apparent at least & unbroken to the observation, by voice or sign, throughout these memoirs, -- of the Spiritual Realities beyond his humanity. Is it not so? I think it was my impression.'

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

  

 : The Berkshire Chronicle

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842: 'My dearest friend, here is the newspaper [containing report of Mitford's laying corner stone of New Public Rooms, London Street, Reading, on 31 August] back & thanks upon thanks for the pleasure of the sight of it. I admire your chief orator [Dr Cowan, who gave speech on occasion] [...] & applaud with all the applause & exult in all the exultation'.

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

  

 : report of reprieve of condemned criminal Elizabeth Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842: 'Will Mrs Partridge receive the expression of my earnest thoughts for her happiness? [...] But I never had the pleasure of seeing Mr Partridge on either side the Alps -- never alas! WAS on any side but one [...] I read in the paper lately that Elizabeth Barrett was reprieved from capital punishment. So "we are [italics]three[end italics]" -- or were at least.'

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

  

Benjamin Robert Haydon : letter to the Sheffield Mercury regarding formation of a School of Design in Sheffield.

Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 29 October 1842: 'I have to thank you [...] for the sight of a very interesting letter of the Sheffield paper which I seem to be bound to return to you, as you do not say "keep it".'

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

  

Frances Trollope : The Barnabys in America

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842: 'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. She is very clever there is no denying. But I do wonder whether the [italics]educated[end italics] quakers make use of [italics]Thee[end italics] in the nominative case -- whether they make use of such execrable grammar (for instance) as "Thee bee'st". I never heard a quaker talk, and yet I cd scarcely wonder or doubt at all about it, if I did not observe that Capt. Marryat & Mrs Trollope & other writers of at least supposed education, represent their quakers always talking so.'

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

  

Frederick Marryat : A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions

'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions (1839), in 1841'.

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

  

John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia Garrow : The Keepsake for 1843

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842: 'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Blessington's Annual [...] The annual is fuller of trash than usual I think, which is saying a good deal of ill. His own contribution indeed is a very excellent & poetical paraphrase of Schiller's "Gods of Greece" -- & there is a prose story by Mr Landor which has much beauty in his peculiar manner, -- & there is, moreover, a graceful fairy story by Miss Garrow, which I prefer to her last year's ballad, although retaining my opinion of the want of individuality & of power.'

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

  

George Sand : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'

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

  

Eugene Sue : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'

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

  

Frederic Soulie : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'

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

  

Louis de Maynard de Queilhe : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France & the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...] [George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie, & De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'

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

  

George Sand : Leila

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: '"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the ends of my fingers -- blush three blushes in one .. for [italics]Her[end italics] who could be so shameless -- for her sex, whose purity she so disgraced -- & for myself in particular, who cd hold such a book for five minutes while a coal-fire burnt within reach of the other.'

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

  

Victor Hugo : Les derniers jours d'un condamne

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: ''Have you observed what I have observed [...] that Charles Dickens has meditated deeply & not without advantage upon Victor Hugo, -- and that some of his very finest things .. (all for instance of the Jew's condemnation-hours in Oliver Twist) .. are taken from Victor Hugo, .. "Les derniers jours d'un condamne" & passim? I admire Boz very absolutely & gratefully [...] but my sense of his power & genius grew grey & weak [...] with reading Hugo.'

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

  

Frederic Soulie : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: 'I have just done reading a romance of Frederick Soulie's which begins with a violation & a murder, & ends consistently with a murder & a violation, -- the hero who is the agent of this "just proportion" being shut up at last & starved in a premature coffin, after having his eyelids neatly sowed [sic] up by the fair fingers of his lady-love.'

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

  

Robert Pollock : The Course of Time

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I confess it appeared to me an extroardinary [sic] work for a young poet -- full of grand conceptions half formed -- & tracked everywhere with unequal staggering footsteps of genius.'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : review article on Tennyson and/or Browning

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson & Browning in the Church of England quarterly [...] Mr Horne is acute and generous as he always is, -- but Leigh Hunt's article, altho' honest in criticism, I do not doubt, & wise in many of the remarks, strikes me as a cold welcome from a poet to a poet -- & to such a poet as Tennyson! -- & I felt a little vexed while I was reading it.'

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

  

Leigh Hunt : review article on Tennyson and/or Browning

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson & Browning in the Church of England quarterly [...] Mr Horne is acute and generous as he always is, -- but Leigh Hunt's article, altho' honest in criticism, I do not doubt, & wise in many of the remarks, strikes me as a cold welcome from a poet to a poet -- & to such a poet as Tennyson! -- & I felt a little vexed while I was reading it.'

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

  

Frederika Bremer : The Neighbours: A Story of Everyday Life

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 December 1842: 'My thoughts have lately been of Frederica Bremer?s "Neighbours" instead of my own?I mean of the very charming novel which Mrs Howitt has just "done into English" from the Swedish ? or German peradventure ? it being probably a translation from the German ? Read it my dearest friend, & agree with me that it is delightful. "Like Miss Austen" says Mrs Howitt - & "like Miss Austen" being the best introduction to you possible, "I echo her" ? altho? in my private & individual opinion & saving your presence, I do consider the book of a higher & sweeter tone than Miss Austen had voice and soul for. There is more poetry, more of the inner life, more of the ideal aspiration more of a Godward tendency in the book than we need seek for or than even you my beloved friend, can, I think, imagine in any book or books of Miss Austen considered in a moment of your most enthusiastic estimation. I am pleased, & touched .. charmed for the better, by the book. The serenity, the sweetness, the undertone of Christian music, affect me the more for coming to me in the midst of my lion & tiger hunting with La jeune France [ie her reading of lurid, recent French fiction]; & the impression will not pass, it appears to me, with the reading of the last page.'

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

  

Frances Burney D'Arblay : Diary and Letters (Volume 5)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 December 1842: 'I did think the fifth volume [of Frances Burney D'Arblay's Diary and Letters] interesting & very interesting -- and yet, I dont give it the preference quite as you do [...] I believe I was [...] vexed at her wary conduct & cold policy & most provident distrust towards that noble woman Madme de Stael [goes on to comment upon and criticise text in detail].'

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

  

Mary Howitt : The Seven Temptations

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 December 1842: 'I like Mary Howitt's lyrical poetry -- ballad poetry, I shd say distinctively, -- and once thought, -- before I had read the "Seven Temptations", that I wd prefer having her genius to work with, than either Mrs Hemans's & [sic] Miss Landon's. The Seven Temptations changed my view, & checked my admiration. She cannot sustain a high song'.

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

  

Alfred Tennyson : 'Oriana'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 December 1842: 'Do you really object to the re-iteration of [italics]Oriana[end italics] [in Tennyson's poem of that name]? Do you think it affected? To my mind, it is highly artistic, & [italics]effective[end italics] instead! It rang all day in my head when first I read it [...] You hear the Norland wind wail in it!'

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

  

Robert Browning : Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842: 'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh over. There are fine things [...] But there is much in the little (for the publication consists of only a few pages) which I, who admire him, wish away -- impotent attempts at humour, -- a vain jangling with rhymes [...] and a fragmentary rough-edgedness about the [italics]mounting[end italics] of some high thoughts.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 December 1842: 'I sent Pere Goriot [...] because it is my belief that I never mentioned to you the name of Balzac, & that he [italics]is[end italics], nevertheless, the most powerful writer of the French day next to Victor Hugo & George Sand! [...] Pere Goriot is a very painful book -- but full of moody power, dashed with blood & mud. It appears to me the most powerful work of its writer, I have read -- & also the most open to tenderness.'

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

  

George Sand : Leila

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho' the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual & physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond praising.'

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

  

George Sand : Jacques

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho' the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual & physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond praising.'

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

  

George Sand : Indiana

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-color & soul-slime & one which I could not read through for its vileness myself, .. I sent this Jacques, which seemed to me to stink less in the [italics]phrase[end italics], altho' the bearing & countenance & general moral tone are identically bad [...] Indiana, less revolting as a whole leans alike & with the bent of the author's peculiar womanhood, to the sensual & physical -- and yet that work does appear to me very brilliant & powerful, & eloquent beyond praising.'

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

  

Frances Trollope : Letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'I am bewitched, my beloved friend, to be sure! Do you know I could have been obstinate in my self-persuasion that I had returned to you Mrs Trollope's letter & here it is in my writing basket. And all this while I have been rewarding you for your kindness in letting me see it [...] & keeping you from sending your answer, by my carelessness.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon fils : Le Sopha, Conte Moral

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'Did you ever look at -- I dont say [italics]read[end italics] -- the "Sofa" of Crebillon fils. I sent for it once in the innocense [sic] of my ignorance, & after a quarter of an hour's turning of the leaves dropped it like a burning iron. It is the most disgusting sensual book I ever [italics]tried[end italics] to read -- but [italics]did'nt[end italics] read, I do assure you.'

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

  

Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon : Memoires d'une Femme de Qualite sur Louis XVIII, sa Cour et son Regne

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842: 'I remember [...] reading in the curious Memoires d'une femme de qualite, a mot upon Madme de Genlis who was said to have confessed in [italics]her[end italics] memoirs [italics]everybody's sins except her own[end italics].'

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

  

Comtesse de Genlis : Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842: 'I like Madme de Genlis in many of her writings [...] Do you know [...] the story of the Duchesse de C. in the cavern, extended into three volumes? Would you like to know it, if you do not already? I have it here. It belongs to me. And it always seems to me the very best, most vivid & most interesting of its author's various romances, & well worth reading once or twice or thrice.'

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

  

James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') : 'Carthon'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did much delight in him as that fact proves. Since your letter came I have taken him up again -- & have just finished 'Carthon' -- There are beautiful passages in it [...] But [...] nothing is articulate -- nothing [italics]individual[end italics], nothing various.'

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

  

Plato  : Gorgias

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. translation of the Gorgias of Plato, by a Mr Hyman of Oxford, who is a step-son of Mr Haydon's the artist? It is an excellent translation with learned notes -- but it is [italics]not elegant[end italics]. He means to try the public upon it -- but as I have intimated to him, the Christians of the present day are not civilized enough for Plato.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Benjamin Robert Haydon : autobiography

Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843: 'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! I have been deeply interested in it in all ways [...] you owe this M.S. to the world as you owe to it the productions of your Art [...] the descriptions of Northcote, Opie, & Fuseli are highly graphic & life-like'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

William Ware : Zenobia: or, The Fall of Palmyra

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1843: 'I have read the Letters from Palmyra. They are [...] powerfully written, in an elevated style which rises, not unfrequently, into eloquence! Still there does appear to me a coldness -- oh I may be very wrong -- but I read the book some time since, it struck me so.'

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

  

Anton Felix Schindler : The Life of Beethoven

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1843: 'I read this very morning Schindler's interesting memoirs of Beethoven'.

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

  

Charles Dickens : Martin Chuzzlewit

Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843: 'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three doors from Mr Kenyon in Harley Place? The new numbers appear to me admirable, & full of life & blood .. whatever we may say to the thick rouging & extravagance of gesture. There is a beauty, a tenderness, too, in the organ-scene'.

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

  

John Gower : Confessio Amantis

Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 11 February 1843: 'I wish I could send you the "Confessio amantis" -- I have read it but do not possess it -- & have been waiting for some time until a black letter copy shall fall within reach of my hands'.

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

  

John Wilson (as Christopher North) : The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843: 'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- [italics]I[end italics] call him a "brute- angel" [...] Oh surely, surely, he is a great poet .. in prose! I am reading the Recreations -- 3d volume.'

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

  

Maria Edgeworth : 'The Cherry Orchard'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [...] Still, after their kind, they are excellent [...] Why I learnt to read out of those first little books for children, & my child's heart has beat very fast in the "Cherry Orchard" & for Rosamond's "Purple vase"!'

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

  

Maria Edgeworth : 'Rosamond'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [...] Still, after their kind, they are excellent [...] Why I learnt to read out of those first little books for children, & my child's heart has beat very fast in the "Cherry Orchard" & for Rosamond's "Purple vase"!'

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

  

anon : Duty and Inclination (volume 1)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843: 'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inclination" -- I tried twice & failed. the first time I tried, it had just come out with Miss Landon's name on the title page & a laudatory introduction -- & I sent it back to the booksellers in the agony of a yawn in the middle of the first volume. A year afterwards I wanted something light to doze over, & I bethought me of "Duty of Inclination", -- & how Miss Landon cdnt surely have praised it quite for nothing, -- & how the fault of my yawning might have been in my physics rather than in "Duty['s]" imaginatives, .. & how I wd try it again. So I sent for the book and tried it for the second time. My dearest Miss Mitford, it is as nearly [italics]trash[end italics] as any book I can think of [...] It is the sort of lightness which tires you to death'.

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

  

anon : Duty and Inclination

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843: 'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inclination" -- I tried twice & failed. the first time I tried, it had just come out with Miss Landon's name on the title page & a laudatory introduction -- & I sent it back to the booksellers in the agony of a yawn in the middle of the first volume. A year afterwards I wanted something light to doze over, & I bethought me of "Duty of Inclination", -- & how Miss Landon cdnt surely have praised it quite for nothing, -- & how the fault of my yawning might have been in my physics rather than in "Duty['s]" imaginatives, .. & how I wd try it again. So I sent for the book and tried it for the second time. My dearest Miss Mitford, it is as nearly [italics]trash[end italics] as any book I can think of [...] It is the sort of lightness which tires you to death'.

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

  

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Thank you, my dear cousin, for Mr Longfellow's verses -- a [italics]whole book[end italics] of which I never saw before, & never liked him so little as in the same. But I suppose verses of this sort are meant to be light & insigni[fi]cative'.

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

  

Leonard Horner : Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume I)

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very interesting -- but he seems to me to have had too wavering a will, or rather too many objects, .. to be a great man.'

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

  

Leonard Horner : Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume II)

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my dear cousin, as a whole politician .. as he gathers himself into one slowly with all his energy & strength [...] And then what an admirable letter Sydney Smith's is, in the appendix -- quite perfect in its kind I think.'

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

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : The Last of the Barons

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843: 'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the hardest & most laborious work passing through his "Last of the Barons" (May it be the last of his romances wrought after such a fashion!) [...] There are threads of golden beauty [...] the sub-stuff being strong, & stiff, & useful -- very good stout history [...] but as for romance & poetic Art, the Goddess of useful knowledge has set her face against them.'

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

  

Thomas Bewick : The History of British Birds (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843: 'I have seen Bewick only in extracts -- therefore you are justified in reproaching my ignorance --- and I dare say I was perfectly wrong in supposing him to be a mere scientific writer without a soul'.

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

  

Frances Trollope : Hargrave, or the Adventures of a Man of Fashion

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843: 'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Hargrave. She has great skill in the construction of a story & shows it here; although I do not think that otherwise & generally, the work is of her cleverest.'

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

  

James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) : The Death of Cuchullin

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843: 'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remained too long unanswered [...] I thought it necessary to read "Cuthullin" steadily through as a preliminary to replying to your remarks upon it. This has been achieved at last [...] I admit the great beauty of certain things in the poem [...] although I preserve my opinion upon the general monotony & defective individuality'.

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

  

Julius Caesar : De Bello Gallico

Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843: 'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I found them harder to read than his battles were to fight'.

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

  

Mrs Samuel Carter Hall : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843: 'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I am one of her many readers [...] From her husband I had one or two kind notes once, when he had the editorship of Colburn's magazine & I was a contributor to the same.'

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

  

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 1 May 1843: 'I have been reading Carlyle .. his "Past & Present" -- There is nothing new in it -- even of Carlyleism .... but almost everything true -- I am a devotee of Carlyle.'

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

  

William Wordsworth : Grace Darling

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843: '[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon Grace Darling when it first appeared: and with a curious mixture of feelings [...] I yet read it with so much pain from the nature of the subject, that my judgement was scarcely free to consider the poetry [...] '[italics]But[end italics] ... I do confess to you my dear friend, that I suspect, .. through the mist of my sensations, .. the poem in question to be very inferior to his former poems'.

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

  

Frederika Bremer : The Home: or, Family Cares and Family Joys

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 May 1843: 'Mary Howitt's last translation from Frederika Bremer's swedish, "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did.'

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

  

Julia Pardoe : 'Modern Turkish Travellers'

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'The other day I took up the Foreign Quarterly of last January in which is your Chinese paper, & fell upon another article called "Turkish travellers" which I had never fallen upon before. Some things in it are so like you, and some other things are so unlike [...] Surely the style is yours -- or I am bewitched, which is possible too.'

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

  

Nicholas John Halpin : Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's Dream

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'Reading Mr Halpin of the Shakespeare society upon Oberon's command to Puck in the "midsummer night's dream," & falling into the degree of passion to which sympathy is more necessary than it is to grief itself, I turned in my thoughts to you as the person most likely of all to be in a competent passion [...] Now by the soul of Shakespeare, it ought to be a reason or blasphemy by act of Parliament for men to write such treaties & call them commentaries. They are [italics]mentaries[end italics] in the strictest sense [...] Mr Halpin gives us a "paraphrase" of Oberon's "sug'red words", -- from which, here is an extract. '"And so the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy-free." 'Halpin loquitur. "And so the virgin queen departed from Kenilworth castle, unshackled by any matrimonial engagement & as heart-whole as ever .." 'I hope you dont belong to the Shakespeare society.'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : article on Royal Commission on Children's Employment

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'By the way [...] I have been reading you in the Illuminated Magazine.'

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

  

John Edmund Reade : Sacred Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 May 1843: 'Mr Reade's "Sacred Poems" I am now looking into by dear Mr Kenyon's kindness. He is [italics]in Wordsworth now[end italics], having made the circuit of the poets. What a phenomenon!'

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

  

Philip James Bailey : Festus

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals, of mine [...] wrote to me, praising [John] Sterling extravagantly. [italics]I[end italics], .. who never cd see much in Sterling, .. was sincere & cold about him in reply, .. & begged the praiser to read Festus, which I was reading at the moment. Well! -- Presently I had another letter. My correspondent was astounded at me! Upon my praise, he had procured Festus, & looked at one or two pages, .. when he was driven back in convulsive fits, by the hot blast of Indecency & Blasphemy emitted from the leaves -- he found it impossible to read such a book!'

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

  

V  : IX Poems by V. (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 June 1843: 'My idea of [italics]V[ed italics] has always been .. a clever woman, whose vocation it is not, to write poetry. Her "I watched the Heavens" is after Dante -- [italics]after[end italics] in all sorts of ways. Of the "Nine Poems" I have seen extracts only.'

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

  

Mrs Coleridge : 'On Rationalism'

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 30 June 1843: 'I honor Mrs Coleridge for the readiness of reasoning & integrity in her reasoning, for the learning, energy & impartiality which she has brought to her purpose -- & I agree with her in many of her objects; & disagree, by opposing her opponents with a fuller front than she is always inclined to do [...] I have read the book in spite of prophecies. After all I shd like to cut it in two -- it wd be better for being shorter -- and it might be clearer also. There is in fact some dulness & perplexity [...] & what I cannot help considering a superfluous tenderness for Puseyism.'

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

  

George Payne Rainsford James : novels

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'I like the spirit & courteous goodness of Mr James's books [...] I believe I have read almost everyone [sic] of his books .. either when I was ill or when I was well. They have much of what Chaucer calls "gentilesse" .. if not much passion & imagination -- and his scenic descriptions are admirable. I do not know better books for an invalid -- although the author may not be pleased with my reason for saying so -- viz that they seldom make the heart beat.'

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

  

Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightful memoirs. She was fifty or past it when she met Lauzun, & the tears ran down my cheeks as I read the recitation of her love sorrows.'

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

  

George Borrow : The Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonment of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1843: 'Mr Borrow [italics]is[end italics] a very original & characteristic writer -- I was delighted with his book [...] the Bible Society committee was not satisfied with him. They call him wild I believe & wanting in gravity [...] but I admire Mr Borrow, & like him all the better for putting off the conventional demureness of a pattern missionary, & daring to be a [italics]man[end italics] in spirit & in truth.'

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

  

Charles James Lever : Charles O'Malley

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843: 'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I tried only once certainly -- & then my own humour might have been partly in fault. My conclusion then was, that I cdnt read him -- that he was a very clever fellow & the very fellow to be written & read between the smoke of a cigar & the steam of a glass of brandy [...] His noise made my head ache, & his loud laughing made me grave. In fact, the book appeared to me a view of Life by the light of strong, somewhat coarse & altogether unworn animal spirits .. & not that touching, solemn, holy thing which Life is, in the eyes of that God who died for its purification, & those human beings who have learnt nearly all they know in the depth of its agonies.'

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

  

Michael Scott : Tom Cringle's Log

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843: 'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I tried only once certainly -- & then my own humour might have been partly in fault. My conclusion then was, that I cdnt read him [...] His noise made my head ache, & his loud laughing made me grave [...] I tried the Log & cdnt quite get thro' it. I shrink too from these maritime books now, for other reasons.'

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

  

William Howitt : Rural and Domestic Life of Germany

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 July 1843: 'I am reading William Howitt's Germany with a good deal of interest.'

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

  

Cornelius Mathews : Motley Book

Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then, I have read them with great attention & recognised the power & talent which are destined, I do not doubt, to develop themselves still farther & in more distinctive forms. There is an inclination to the grotesque which while it gives evidence of a ready fancy, disturbs the effect of the general impression to such readers as I am -- & the very faithfulness to American manners & associations while I consistently applaud it, does nevertheless occasionally in spite of myself increase this disturbance.'

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

  

Cornelius Mathews : Behemoth, a Legend of the Moundbuilders

Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then, I have read them with great attention & recognised the power & talent which are destined, I do not doubt, to develop themselves still father & in more distinctive forms. There is an inclination to the grotesque which while it gives evidence of a ready fancy, disturbs the effect of the general impression to such readers as I am -- & the very faithfulness to American manners & associations while I consistently applaud it, does nevertheless occasionally in spite of myself increase this disturbance.'

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

  

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lays of Ancient Rome

Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 October 1843: 'I very much admire Mr Macaulay -- & could scarcely read his ballads & keep lying down. They seemed to draw me up to my feet as the mesmeric powers are said to do'.

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

  

William Merry : Predestination and Election, Considered Scripturally

Elizabeth Barrett to William Merry, 2 November 1843: 'Your book [...] is written in a spirit so amiable & conciliating, .. so Christian-heartedly [...] that it almost reconciles me to its controversial character & its subject [...] again and again, as I read along, I felt ... "[italics]That[end italics] is true" -- "[italics]that[end italics] is rightly put"'.

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

  

Baron Jean du Potet de Sennevoy : An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism ... With an Appendix Containing Reports of British Practitioners in Favour of the Science

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 December 1843: 'I have read in Baron Dupotet's & Dr Stone's book upon Mesmerism, that in cases of the chest, it will not avail -- and that the spitting of blood has been brought on very violently by attempting to cast the patient into sleep'.

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

  

Richard Monckton Milnes : 'Lay of the Humble'

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 December 1843: 'I admired [Richard Monckton Milne's] first volume very much; but his later poetry seems to want fire and imagination, and to strain too much at the didactic [...] And then that exquisite "Lay of the Humble" which I was praising lately, and which affected me very much at the time I read it (it appeared in the first volume), somebody told me the other day that it was not original. Taken from the German I think they said it was. I wish I knew. It is very beautiful in any case.'

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

  

Thomas Hood : 'The Song of the Shirt'

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843: 'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It is not every man -- is it? -- who can prick so into the heart with a needle -- but Hood is an extraordinary writer [...] What tragic passion he throws into that "sti[t]ch sti[t]ch before he has done with it! -- enough to make two or three successful modern tragedies'.

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

  

Hannah Lawrance : Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England from the Commencement of the Twelfth Century

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843: 'One or two volumes of the Memoirs of the queens of England, I have read -- & they seemed to me to show industry & good taste in the selection & compilation of material. But I did not read any more, just because I like the old chronicles & dislike the compiling spirit.'

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

  

Sarah Ellis (nee Stickney) : The Poetry of Life

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843: 'Either a Stickney or a Strictland wrote the "Poetry of Life", prose (very) essays, which I couldn't get to the end of'.

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

  

Hooker : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's & so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory belonging to it.'

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

  

Jeremy Taylor : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's & so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory belonging to it.'

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

  

 : Bible

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's & so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory belonging to it.'

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

  

Caroline Bowles : The Birth-Day

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'Although not agreeing with you that the poetry of Caroline Bowles (the Birthday & the minor verses) is "meretricious," -- nay, seeming to see in it much tender simplicity, freshness & moral sweetness, I do not class it or herself highly as poet & poetry, & am aware of the feebleness essentially, -- the want of reach of mind & imagination [goes on to comment upon specific passages of The Birth-Day].'

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

  

Charles Dickens : A Christmas Carol

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'The Christmas Carol strikes me much as it does you. I dont like the machinery -- which is entangled with allegory & ghostery -- but I like & admire the mode of the working out -- & the exquisite scenes about the clerk & little Tiny [Tim]; I thank the writer in my heart of hearts for them.'

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

  

William Wordsworth : epitaph for Robert Southey

Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843: 'On my return from a long, weary walk through mud & mist, yesterday morning, my eyes were gladdened by the sight of your letter [...] Thank you for those lines of Wordsworth's [epitaph for Robert Southey, transcribed by Barrett in her letter, of 26 December 1843]'.

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

  

Woods : lines of poetry

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 31 December 1843: 'With thanks I return the verses of your artist friend [enclosed in letter from Westwood of 27 December]. It is a pretty fancy, & gave me pleasure to read.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

 : Book catalogue

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 December 1843: 'Looking over a book catalogue this morning I saw Agnes Strickland's name attached to a "Demetrius & other poems" whereof I never heard before.'

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

  

George Payne Rainsford James : novels

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5-6 January 1844: '[George Payne Rainsford James] is a picturesque writer [...] Often when I have been very unwell, I have been able to read his books with advantage, when I cd not read better ones. You may read him from end to end without a superfluous beat of the heart -- & they are just the sort of intellectual diet fitted for persons "ordered to be kept quiet" by their physicians [...] I am grateful to Mr James for many a still serene hour.'

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

  

Thomas Westwood : Beads from a Rosary

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 11 January 1844: 'I have [...] read your volume through [...] I have several favourite poems -- the "Invocation" [...] & "Spring" [...] & the "Mill-song," & the Wind, & the "Parlour Fire," .. but my favourite in the whole book, I think, must be confessed to be the "Birth song of the Flowers."'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : The Ballad of Delora

Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them all, & admired them all [...] I confess I have formed an almost higher opinion of Mr Horne's genius from them, than from "Orion" [poem] [...] "Delora["] too, has many fine passages, -- and I should be more particular in adverting to them & others, were it not that your own pencil has forestalled me, so that my encomiums would be, in most cases, but a reiteration of your own [goes on to reflect upon pleasures of reading annotations by others in books]'.

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

  

Samuel Lover : novels

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844: '[Samuel Lover] is a very powerful writer of Irish novels [...] You probably know his ballads [...] His novels, however, all of which I have not read, are the stuff whereon his fame is made -- and they are highly vital, & of great value in the sense of commentary on the national character.'

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

  

Charles James Lever : Harry Lorrequer

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844: 'I [italics]cannot read[end italics] Lever, ... honestly & without affectation, I [italics]cannot[end italics] [...] Over and over again have I tried to read his book -- and every time I came to the conclusion that he was a remarkably clever writer who was unreadable by me. [...] The chapters, I have read of him, make my head ache as if I had been sitting in the next room to an orgy [...] of gentlemen topers, -- with their low gentility, & "hip hip hurrahs," & wine out of wine-coolers [...] he is contracted & conventional, & unrefined in his line of conventionality -- and I cannot believe that he represents fairly even the social & jovial side of men of much refinement'.

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

  

Eugene Sue : The Mysteries of Paris

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. ' know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius which radiates, from end to end, through that extraordinary work [...] the writer, if of less general power than Balzac, is still more copious in imagination & creation. He glories in all extremities & intensities of evil & of passion [...] he has written other romances [...] "Mathilde" interested me beyond them all, & consists of some seven or eight volumes [...] but except for the insight it gives into French society, I am not sure that you wd be pleased with it [...] I have been thinking that the American translation in which you read the "Mysteries," may probably be a [italics]purified[end italics] edition, of which I have seen some notices.'

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

  

Eugene Sue : Mathilde, Memoires d'une Jeune Femme

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. I know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius which radiates, from end to end, through that extraordinary work [...] the writer, if of less general power than Balzac, is still more copious in imagination & creation. He glories in all extremities & intensities of evil & of passion [...] he has written other romances [...] "Mathilde" interested me beyond them all, & consists of some seven or eight volumes [...] but except for the insight it gives into French society, I am not sure that you wd be pleased with it [...] I have been thinking that the American translation in which you read the "Mysteries," may probably be a [italics]purified[end italics] edition, of which I have seen some notices.'

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

  

Philip James Bailey : Festus

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: '[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much struck by "Festus" [...] Both the "Festus" & the supplement apologetic to it, which appeared in the Monthly Repository (I think) filled me with admiration [...] Its [italics]fault[end italics] is an extraordinary inequality -- so really one falls down precipices continually; & from pinnacles of grandeur, into profundities of badness. Parts of the poem are as bad, & as weak as is well possible to be conceived of: and moreover [...] there is an occasional coarseness & gratuitous indelicacy [...] Also, I will not say that there is not some over-daring in relation to divine things [...] But when all is said, what poet-stuff remains!'

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

  

Philip James Bailey : Additional scene for Festus

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: '[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much struck by "Festus" [...] Both the "Festus" & the supplement apologetic to it, which appeared in the Monthly Repository (I think) filled me with admiration [...] Its [italics]fault[end italics] is an extraordinary inequality -- so really one falls down precipices continually; & from pinnacles of grandeur, into profundities of badness. Parts of the poem are as bad, & as weak as is well possible to be conceived of: and moreover [...] there is an occasional coarseness & gratuitous indelicacy [...] Also, I will not say that there is not some over-daring in relation to divine things [...] But when all is said, what poet-stuff remains!'

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

  

Henry Taylor : Philip van Artevelde

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: 'I suppose by an opinion upon Taylor you mean nothing elaborate -- & indeed I am not qualified for it without a little study, having read Van Artevelde once in a hurry (once -- long ago!) & no work of his subsequently at all.'

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

  

John Edmund Reade : letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844: 'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amused me more perhaps than it [italics]shd[end italics] have done, as representing a human being bound, so, upon the agonizing wheel of an extreme & incessant vanity [...] Did you not laugh out loud when you read it? [goes on to mock Reade's views on his contemporaries in literature]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Manuscript: Letter

  

George Burges : criticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Sophocles

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to him I am for permitting me to look, for a moment, according to his view of the question [...] I am delighted to be able to call by the name of Aeschylus, under the authority of Mr Burges, those noble electrical lines [...[ which had struck me twenty times as Aeschylean, when I read them among the recognized fragments of Sophocles.'

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

  

Sophocles : 'recognised fragments of Sophocles'

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to him I am for permitting me to look, for a moment, according to his view of the question [...] I am delighted to be able to call by the name of Aeschylus, under the authority of Mr Burges, those noble electrical lines [...[ which had struck me twenty times as Aeschylean, when I read them among the recognized fragments of Sophocles.'

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

  

unknown : A Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of Norwich

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844: 'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end italics]! They are more [italics]personal[end italics] than any I ever saw of his, -- & have more warm everyday life in them.'

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

  

John Sterling : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to my apprehension, into the class of respectable poets: good sense & good feeling, somewhat dry & cold, and very level smooth writing, being what I discern in him.'

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

  

Bartholomew Simmons : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to my apprehension, into the class of respectable poets: good sense & good feeling, somewhat dry & cold, and very level smooth writing, being what I discern in him -- There are Mr Sterling, Mr Simmons, Lord Leigh [...] who have education & natural ability enough to be anything in the world EXCEPT poets -- & who choose to be poets "in spite of nature & their stars" [...] Moreover all these men, by a curious consistency, take up & use the Gallic- Drydeny corruption of versification [source eds believe by this Barrett means blank verse] -- so at least the passing glances I have had of their proceedings lead me to suppose.'

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

  

Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to my apprehension, into the class of respectable poets: good sense & good feeling, somewhat dry & cold, and very level smooth writing, being what I discern in him -- There are Mr Sterling, Mr Simmons, Lord Leigh [...] who have education & natural ability enough to be anything in the world EXCEPT poets -- & who choose to be poets "in spite of nature & their stars" [...] Moreover all these men, by a curious consistency, take up & use the Gallic- Drydeny corruption of versification [source eds believe by this Barrett means blank verse] -- so at least the passing glances I have had of their proceedings lead me to suppose.'

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

  

Paul de Kock : novels

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1844: 'Really, [Paul de Kock] is very bad -- he is very [italics]nasty[end italics] -- he splashes the dirt about him, like a child in a guttter [...] Twice I tried books of his, & sent them back again, .. feeling them to be to bad to read. The third time, they sent me a book of his in mistake for another which I had asked for -- & I went through with it, -- & saw so much (getting used to the filth) to like & recognise for picture & faculty, .. that I took courage, -- & have read most of his forty or fifty volumes, I do believe [goes on to discuss author further]'.

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

  

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton : The Dream, and Other Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 June 1844: 'The poem [of Caroline Norton's] which I called [italics]domestic[end italics] is one, I think, in an octave stanza, containing a story .. of a wife who becomes aware of the dishonour of her husband. It succeeds the Dream -- It has more [italics]power[end italics], than any composition of Mrs Norton's which I ever read. The name quite escapes me -- & I have so painful an association of a personal nature with the book, as to lose all courage to look into it.'

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

  

Henry Fothergill Chorley : Memorials of Mrs Hemans

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of interest certainly. Still I stand by my position, that she was too conventionally a [italics]lady[end italics], to be a great poetess [...] I took up Blanchard's memoir of LEL just after Mr Chorley's book, & was struck by an undeniable vulgarity spreading all the way through it, in obvious contrast to the refinement of the other work.'

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

  

Samuel Laman Blanchard : Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of interest certainly. Still I stand by my position, that she was too conventionally a [italics]lady[end italics], to be a great poetess [...] I took up Blanchard's memoir of LEL just after Mr Chorley's book, & was struck by an undeniable vulgarity spreading all the way through it, in obvious contrast to the refinement of the other work.'

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

  

James Russell Lowell : Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 July 1844, thanking him for copy of his Poems (1844): 'Your "Legend of Brittany" is full of beautiful touches [...] Then among the miscellaneous poems my pencil has marked various beauties & felicities. Chief of all I like the [italics]ode[end italics], which has struck a deep string in me, as it must in all, to whom Poetry has been as to me, the Life-light of existence. 'If I ventured to make a remark in criticism on this new volume in a general point of view, it wd be that there is a certain vagueness of effect, through a redundant copiousness of what may be called poetical diction!'

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

  

Catherine Smith Pyer : Wild Flowers; or Poetic Gleanings from Natural Objects

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 September 1844: 'I have sent you Miss Pyer's volume of poems today .. & see in it an address to yourself. The subscription is all settled.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : Le Lys dans la Vallee (including Preface)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 September 1844: 'I read the preface to "Le Lis" & was delighted by it -- but I admire the romance far more than you seem to do, and as a love-romance, a nouvelle "nouvelle Heloise," think it quite exquisite.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : La Vieille Fille

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844: 'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me so, that I vowed to read no more of him, -- & it was by a mere accident that he met me again & overcame me. That first book was his "Veille [sic] fille," which I still think a prodigy of noisomeness.'

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

  

Benjamin Disraeli : Coningsby: or, The New Generation

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844: 'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet scarcely efficient [...] It has no story, & not a great deal of character; and is powerful as an exponent of the Young England political views, without being specific. Still, a master-mind lives in the book, & the reader feels it everywhere.'

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

  

Eugene Sue : Le Juif Errant

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 October 1844: 'I thought I had read only the [italics]third[end italics] volume of "Le Juif," -- but your fourth must be my third, for I have assuredly read the madhouse scene -- & a very fine thing it is [goes on to comment further upon specific episodes in novel] [...] I do wish I had the other volumes of the "Juif Errant" -- but I suppose they are not written yet.'

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

  

Henry Rogers : 'Recent Developments of Puseyism'

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besides the admirable paper by Macaulay in the same number.'

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

  

Thomas Babington Macaulay : 'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Earl of Chatham'

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besides the admirable paper by Macaulay in the same number.'

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

  

John Gibson Lockhart : Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Have you any recollection of Adam Blair? I believe there was an outcry against the indecency of that book, -- & lately, on comparing the first with a last edition of it, I find that the author has left out the few lines which were taken generally to be offensive, & which compared to the least of certain offences, were the merest lamb-innocences.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : La Torpille

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any information, such as you ask for [...] As to Casimir Delavigne, I dislike his poetry so much that I dont think I [italics]can[end italics] try to read any more of it.'

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

  

Jean Francois Casimir Delavigne : poetry

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any information, such as you ask for [...] As to Casimir Delavigne, I dislike his poetry so much that I dont think I [italics]can[end italics] try to read any more of it.'

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

  

Camille Bodin : Pascaline et Savinie

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read two of her books -- Savinie -- and Stenia, .. which last I cd not have lived through if it had not been for the [italics]precious ridiculousnesses[end italics] (as Mrs Malaprop might translate Moliere) of the Englishisms.'

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

  

Camille Bodin : Stenia et l'abbe Maurice

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read two of her books -- Savinie -- and Stenia, .. which last I cd not have lived through if it had not been for the [italics]precious ridiculousnesses[end italics] (as Mrs Malaprop might translate Moliere) of the Englishisms.'

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

  

Edward Moxon : Sonnets

Elizabeth Barrett to Edward Moxon, 25 November 1844: 'I am grateful to you for the gift you have sent me [...] I have glanced through a good many of the sonnets already, & am able to appreciate their refined grace.'

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

  

Madame d'Abrantes : romances

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I have read some of the romances of Madme d'Abrantes [...] Yes -- she is delightful.'

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

  

Jenny Bodin (nee Bastide) : Stenia et l'abbe Maurice

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Madme Bodin nee Jenny Bastide is neither very pure nor at all powerful [...] "Stenia" did me to the death of dulness.'

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

  

Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau : Marianna

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Of [italics]Sandeau[end italics] I have read very little. His "Marianna" has power in its way [...] but acclimatation is a necessary precaution -- for the passion of the book exceeds the comprehension of an Englishman by leagues of extravagance. It's a melancholy, desecrating book'.

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

  

Casimir Delavigne : Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good deal, .. or perhaps not a good deal, .. of Casimir Delavigne's other plays -- but he seemed to me to pine after Racine & the ([italics]French[end italics]) classic abominations of desolation so obviously that I turned back.'

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

  

Casimir Delavigne : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good deal, .. or perhaps not a good deal, .. of Casimir Delavigne's other plays -- but he seemed to me to pine after Racine & the ([italics]French[end italics]) classic abominations of desolation so obviously that I turned back.'

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

  

George Sand : Les Maitres Mosaistes

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on choosing French fiction to read] -- it is perfectly pure, & very beautiful; and so also is "Les sept chords du lyre" -- a prose poem which delighted me'.

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

  

George Sand : Les sept cordes de la lyre

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on choosing French fiction to read] -- it is perfectly pure, & very beautiful; and so also is "Les sept chords du lyre [sic]" -- a prose poem which delighted me'.

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

  

Leigh Hunt : Imagination and Fancy

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 3 December 1844: 'I am grateful enough to [Leigh Hunt] [...] having, .. in addition to all former causes of gratitude, .. the present delight of reading his new critical work upon poetry. The most delightful and genial of poetical critics he is assuredly. Not that I always agree with him [goes on to criticise work in detail] [...] the book is, however, a beautiful book, & will be a companion to me for the rest of my life. My brother George gave it to me, as the most acceptable gift in the world.'

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

  

Horace Twiss : The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (vol. 1)

Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844: 'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward to in the Eldon memoirs, as Pincher's biography. I am only in the first volume. Are English chancellors really made of such stuff? Pincher will help to reconcile me to the Law lords perhaps.'

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

  

William Wordsworth : 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Winandermere Railway'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844: 'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me so much offence by the prose note attached to it beginning .. "This is not mere poetry, but truth" -- or something to that effect! So unworthy of a poet, as giving in to the vulgar notion of poetry & truth being different things! Also, I saw Mon[c]kton Milnes's sonnet in reply -- very good -- but not one of his best sonnets.'

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

  

Richard Monckton Milnes : 'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to Mr Wordsworth's Late Sonnet'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844: 'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me so much offence by the prose note attached to it beginning .. "This is not mere poetry, but truth" -- or something to that effect! So unworthy of a poet, as giving in to the vulgar notion of poetry & truth being different things! Also, I saw Mon[c]kton Milnes's sonnet in reply -- very good -- but not one of his best sonnets.'

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

  

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'I used to read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic], (the "Rights of woman",) .. when I was twelve years old [...] Her eloquence & her doctrine were equally dear to me at that time, when I was inconsoleable [sic] for not being born a man.'

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

  

 : advertisement for Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'I observe an advertisement of [Charles Cowden Clarke's] wife's concordance.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

  

Frederic Soulie : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: '[Frederic Soulie] was one of the first of the new French school I ventured to approach, & he made me open my eyes very wide indeed.'

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

  

Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mademoiselle" as she was called, mind to read them again. They made me laugh and cry -- [italics]at[end itaics] her & [italics]with[end italics] her.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : Le dernier Chouan

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain power, without any doubt, but very heavy in many parts, & exceedingly painful in all [goes on to comment further on this text] [...] nobody in the world could read it a second time [...] 'Also I am reading David Sechard [...] Balzac has bewitched me [...] His wonderful greatness in making the ideality, real, -- & the reality, ideal, I take to be unequalled among writers. The first volume I have not finished yet [goes on to comment further on text] [...] I delight in the book, as far as I have read! -- It is worth twenty "Chouans" to my particular taste at least.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : David Sechard, volume 1

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans". Of a certain power, without any doubt, but very heavy in many parts, & exceedingly painful in all [goes on to comment further on this text] [...] nobody in the world could read it a second time [...] 'Also I am reading David Sechard [...] Balzac has bewitched me [...] His wonderful greatness in making the ideality, real, -- & the reality, ideal, I take to be unequalled among writers. The first volume I have not finished yet [goes on to comment further on text] [...] I delight in the book, as far as I have read! -- It is worth twenty "Chouans" to my particular taste at least.'

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

  

Charles Dickens : The Chimes

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & still think it, one of the most beautiful of [Dickens's] works.'

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

  

Frederic Soulie : Confession generale

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just your case, -- having read only the first volume, & failed of the others [i.e. not been able to obtain them from library], -- there are three: & I was the more provoked because I was interested in the denouement [...] Do you know "Fernande" by Dumas? It was sent to me instead of "Un homme serieux", last night __ & I rather like the opening. But Dumas is a second-class writer.'

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

  

Alexandre Dumas : Fernande

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just your case, -- having read only the first volume, & failed of the others [i.e. not been able to obtain them from library], -- there are three: & I was the more provoked because I was interested in the denouement [...] Do you know "Fernande" by Dumas? It was sent to me instead of "Un homme serieux", last night __ & I rather like the opening. But Dumas is a second-class writer.'

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

  

Eugene Sue : Martin (vol I)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, c.20 September 1847: 'French books I get at [in Florence], but scarcely a new one, .. which is very provoking [...] I have not read "Martin" ever since the first vol. in England.'

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

  

Robert Chalmers : Vestiges of the Natural HIstory of Creation

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books'.

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

  

Las Cases : Memorial de Saint Helene

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6-[8] January 1845: 'As to Napoleon, if he had walked less in blood, I could have given him a fuller sympathy -- but there were fine things in him [...] Las Casas [sic] I read years ago, & will read soon over again.'

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

  

Thomas Noon Talfourd : Vacation Rambles and Thoughts

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's "Rambles & thoughts"? With some wordiness, & faults of taste otherwise, it is a very pleasant book & has set me on the desire of climbing to the top of Mont Blanc [...] It improves as you read.'

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

  

Alexandre Dumas : Fernande

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845: 'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --? I fancy I did, during the reading of the first seven pages. Beware of it, I tell you now -- If Mr Lovejoy ordered it for his library, he will be taken to be disorderly by "prude Angleterre." As Schlegel said of the "Sad shepherdess," that it was "unchaste praise of chastity", so we might reverse the saying for "Fernande." At least -- the heroine is a courtezan [sic] by profession -- but you wd not guess it, except by her talking too much of modesty [...] for the rest, she is a Grace, a muse, a saint & martyr. No virtuous woman could have half her fascinations -- (& that's the moral of the whole!) [...] M. Dumas's "Fernande" will make some of your country gentlemen open their eyes, be certain, if Mr Lovejoy introduces her into Berkshire -- I advise you to advise against it.'

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

  

Paul de Kock : Mon Ami Piffard; et Chipolata

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 January 1845: 'Paul [de Kock] is the writer of farce, .. broad farce ..: and for impulsive gaiety, he has not his peer. I think the more of him just now, because they sent me, a few days since, by a mistake for another work, from the library, "Mon ami Piffard," which is not his best work, & yet set me laughing most cordially. It's a farce rolled out into the narrative form, -- neither more nor less-- A little nasty, of course, to mark, not exactly the [talics]hoof[end italics] of Paul, but his snout. -- But what particuarly struck me [...] was the impulse, the can't-help-myself joyousness of the book [...] I hope it isn't the indecency which I take so kindly in him'.

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

  

Allan Park Paton : poem

Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 18 January 1845: 'I take shame to myself in the confession, that the first newspaper you sent to me, was sent in vain for the verses -- inasmuch as, being occupied at the moment, & aware of the usual worthlessness of poetical insertions in journals, I was satisfied with barely running my eye down the four sides & with coming to a hasty conclusion that the paper had been sent to me in mistake for another [...] [italics]This[end italics] time, I have read & considered!, & I may assure you that it shall never happen to me again to throw aside unread, any poem with the signature "Heather" in connection with it. -- The poem which I [italics]have[end italics] read, is, to my mind & ear, full of promise [...] there is unity in the conception [...] What I least like, in the way of [italics]execution[end italics] [...] is the burden of the whole. Where the metre changes, some sense of artifice in construction & defect in harmony seems to force itself on the ear.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : Modeste Mignon

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter. I read my French abomination at breakfast & dinner & tea time, .. so as to forget myself & be delighted to find that I have eaten a little more than usual in my trance (deeper than mesmeric) & happy state of physical unconsciousness [...] And your first words [in letter] [...] are still of Mignon, Mignon. It is a decided case of flint to flint -- & of electricity by coincidence. 'Well -- and I am delighted with the book just as you are [...] because charmed beyond the point of pleasure produced by mere artistic power in the writer. The truth is [...] that if I were to write my own autobiography, or rather, (much rather), if Balzac were to write it for me, he could not veritably have made it different from what he has written of Modeste. The ideal life of my youth was just [italics]that[end italics], .. line for line [goes on to comment further on text] [...] And that "satiete par la pensee."! -- [italics]There[end italics], lies the test of the morbidity -- for it is morbid -- it is dangerous! & worse romances than poor Modests's is likely to be (I have only read a third of the book) might come of it [comments further on own and Mitford's responses to text]'.

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

  

unknown : article on reported cure by mesmerism of Harriet Martineau

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 January 1845: 'I have seen a page of the Lancet (which Nelly Bordman sent me), with extracts from the abominable "case". It is plain enough from the extracts printed by Mr Greenhough in a letter to the Chronicle yesterday, from H. Martineau's notes to him, that she understood & was ready to permit a [italics]partial[end italics] publication. But what she did [italics]not[end italics] expect, was an independent pamphlet filled with the most offensive details possible. Could any woman [...] have expected patiently such a disclosure, so made?'

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

  

Frederic Soulie : Les Memoires du diable

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 February 1845: 'Do you think you cd. take courage & attempt the eight volumes of Frederic Soulie[']s Memoires du diable? eight rather thick volumes? I am in the midst & heat of them -- & though they stink in one's nostrils not infrequently & are full of the most gorgeous extravagances, the variety & power, the invention, (flash upon flash), & the vividness of life all through, render them to my mind, a most remarkable work [...] Much in it is most disgusting. But you [italics]must[end italics] be struck by the variety of power in it, -- & I cant keep back any new sight from you. Yes indeed! -- how nearer & nearer we are drawn in this "palpitating literature," as you call it so truly! palpitating is just the word! & it sets me palpitating too, whatever it may do by yourself'.

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

  

Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] at last -- & the "Physiologie" besides [...] remember that the "Fille" which is as disgusting a book as you represent it, was my "first fruits" of Balzac. I made my acquaintance with him in that iniquitous book, -- that beastly book -- for, as women, we cannot speak of it with too cogent an abhorrence. Is there any wonder that I made a vow deeply never to read a book by the writer of it any more. I did vow it. And it was a mere mistake of those librarians who are always making mistakes (but I forgive a thousand for the dear love of that one) which sent me "Le Pere Goriot" [...] I bore with him wonderfully; -- & began to sympathise so immorally besides, (as Mr Kenyon says of me) with the artistic power of the book, that I was tempted to throw my plummet down again into the depths of the artist's mind [...] I am struck just as you are, by this wonderful faculty of lifting up so high & clear above the social pollutions, which it is his delight to dabble in, images & creations most stainless & lovely. I do not say (or think) that such a faculty renders him less dangerous as a writer, -- but it is undeniably wonderful as a faculty, & proves him a poet .. minus, the sense of music.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : La vieille fille

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] at last -- & the "Physiologie" besides [...] remember that the "Fille" which is as disgusting a book as you represent it, was my "first fruits" of Balzac. I made my acquaintance with him in that iniquitous book, -- that beastly book -- for, as women, we cannot speak of it with too cogent an abhorrence. Is there any wonder that I made a vow deeply never to read a book by the writer of it any more. I did vow it. And it was a mere mistake of those librarians who are always making mistakes (but I forgive a thousand for the dear love of that one) which sent me "Le Pere Goriot" [...] I bore with him wonderfully; -- & began to sympathise so immorally besides, (as Mr Kenyon says of me) with the artistic power of the book, that I was tempted to throw my plummet down again into the depths of the artist's mind [...] I am struck just as you are, by this wonderful faculty of lifting up so high & clear above the social pollutions, which it is his delight to dabble in, images & creations most stainless & lovely. I do not say (or think) that such a faculty renders him less dangerous as a writer, -- but it is undeniably wonderful as a faculty, & proves him a poet .. minus, the sense of music.'

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

  

Frederic Soulie : Confession generale, vols 1 and 2

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'Tell me, was Soulie's "Confession Generale" never finished? Did it stop short for ever at the second volume with you as with me? Because it is interesting -- and I am suspended in the air in the case of an interesting book that wont end: it[']s a cruel punishment which Dante should have put into Hell, instead of this side the gate of it .. "that day they read no more." Perhaps he meant to hint it so -- & that the thought of the unfinished book tormented the damned lovers as one of the forms of their damnation.'

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

  

Claude Francois de Meneval : Napoleon et Marie Louise: souvenirs historiques

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'Do you know the "Napoleon et Marie Louise" of M. de Meneval, the secretary of the emperor? The three little volumes have interest in them -- and if you require (which you dont I hope) any further impulse towards hating the Austrian [Marie Louise], you will find it there [makes further comments] [...] Well might Napoleon shrink from speakng of her .. & from analysing the motives of her conduct! -- His [italics]silence[end italics], as Meneval describes it, strikes me as very affecting'.

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

  

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Lessons for Children, From Two to Three Years Old

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's '"Come hither Charles -- Come to Mama --" 'oh! how I remember it, book & all! & Miss Edgeworth's Frank & Rosamond. They were my own classics, and those of my brothers and sisters.'

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

  

Maria Edgeworth : Early Lessons

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's '"Come hither Charles -- Come to Mama --" 'oh! how I remember it, book & all! & Miss Edgeworth's Frank & Rosamond. They were my own classics, and those of my brothers and sisters.'

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

  

Honore de Balzac : La Femme superieur

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 March 1845: 'I am in the midst of "La Femme superieure." [sic] The truth of this work & the subtlety & deepness of the [italics]life[end italics] in it .. for I will not call it portraiture, .. are wonderful -- but certainly it justifies the attribute of heaviness & slowness we talked of the other day [goes on to remark, as apparently Mitford has also done, upon importance attached by Balzac to details of costume].'

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

  

Thomas De Quincey : 'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delight in an exquisite paper by the Opium-eater, which my heart trembled through from end to end? What a poet that man is! how he vivifies words, & deepens them, & gives them profound significance'.

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

  

Robert Chambers : Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certain power in tying a knot -- -- (in mating a system) -- but it is not a love-knot, & it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books -- Did the thought ever strike you of [italics]Mr. [Andrew] Crosse having anything to do with the writing[end italics]? I understand that Sir Richard Vivian [sic] denies it determinedly -- & his brother, who visits here, does it for him besides, by all manner of oaths.'

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

  

Eugene Sue : Le Juif errant

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845: 'I have been so low, and weary, & tired of life [...] Yesterday, I went to bed at four o'clock -- & even the ninth volume of the "Juif" would not animate me as it should.'

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

  

Raymond Brucker and Michel Masson : Le macon

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845: 'Do you know "Le macon" by Michel Raymond --? It is not as vivid as most of these books from France, -- nor as passionate, -- but it is interesting as a picture of the life of the people in Paris & I have read it with pleasure.'

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

  

Hans Christian Andersen : The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 19 March 1845: 'Mind you read Andersen's "Improvisatore." I have just finished it, -- & am charmed, -- though of story, there is none, & of character, not much more. But the sense of inner life throughout it, & the exquisite visions & breathings into Italy, quite take away one's breath for pleasure. And then, there is a memoir of the author which interests one in him, for a beginning. He is a real poet, .. this Andersen, -- & worthy of being a countryman of Hamlet ... the Dane par excellence.'

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

  

George Sand : Jeanne

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1845: 'Read George Sand's "Jeanne". It is full of beauty, of profound beauty & significance, .. & is pure besides [...] though the heroine is somewhat too divinely idiotic, -- of a stupidity, a little too gross. And yet I am scarcely sure now, .. although I felt so when I was reading the book -- it is a noble & singular conception, & gives proof of what may be called an heroic imagination.'

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

  

Frederic Soulie : Le Bananier

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'A most singular book of Eugene Sue's [sic] I have read lately, the whole front of which is directed against slave-emancipation & the part which England has played in it [...] The scene is laid in a sugar plantation in the West Indies, & the book, from its very imbecility, is worth your looking into -- Very weak it is, to be sure, -- & outrageously absurd -- and you will see at once that a philanthropist & liberal who advocates the slave-trade, can scarcely be [italics]thorough[end italics] & consistently cordial in free opinions.'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne and Mary Gillies : A Story Book of Country Scenes

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years old might be too old for it, -- but, in general, I do not quarrel with the fitnesses [...] I remember a little book which was a favorite in our nursery, called "A visit to a farm-house [by S.W.]," with precisely the same characteristics, & a better & more interesting general construction. There are a few touches more of poetry in this book, -- owing to Mr. Horne, of course, but the defect is the absolute want of reference to Deity, as creator, which the child looks for, .. which the first instinct of the child looks out to meet. Not that I advocate the teaching of theological systems to children of that early age; but that if the sense of beauty is to be educated, the sense of God should be educated also.'

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

  

Charles Bernard : Un homme serieux

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.

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

  

Charles Bernard : Le Paravent

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.

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

  

Charles Bernard : Une Aventure de magistrat

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.

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

  

George Sand : Rose et Blanche

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- it is of a higher order. Bernard's most magnificent idea of virtue is what you & I shd. call expediency -- now is'nt it? Though I was delighted with "Un homme Serieux," -- & also with "Le paravent," .. the "Aventure d'un magistrat," for instance, is in the latter, to illustrate my opinion. Did you ever read a more disgusting series of small cheateries? It almost spoilt my pleasure in the power. I had a reaction & grew "moral" [...] the "stink in one's nostrils" [Job 4:10] of all that falsehood & depravity, was so immense.' And not much better in its effect on me, was the story of the "Rose blanche" [sic] (though the pretty hoyden captivated me) where no man of honour [italics]could[end italics] have acted as the hero does'.

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

  

Stendhal  : Le rouge et le noir

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'I must beg you to order & read "Le rouge et le noir" by a M. de Stendhal .. a "nom de guerre" I fancy. I wish I knew the names of any other books written by him. This, which I shd. not dare to name to a person in the world except you, so dark & deep is the colouring, is very striking & powerful & full of deep significance [...] It is, as to simple power, a first-class book according to my impression, -- though painful & noxious in many ways. But it is a book for you to read at all risks -- you must certainly read it for the power's sake. It has ridden me like an incubus for several days.'

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

  

Henriette Etiennette Fanny Reybaud : Deux a deux

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'We shall find no where on the earth, I believe, the climate of Paradise; -- not even at Hyeres. In Mdme. Charles Reybeaud's [sic] "Deux a deux," which interested me more than any book of hers I have read since, .. (I withdraw my praise of her, -- she is a weak commonplace writer, I think, --) there was some good praise of Hyeres & the orange trees.'

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

  

Caroline Norton : 'The Child of the Islands' (extracts)

Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 30 April 1845: 'You will see the announcement of Mrs. Norton's new poem on the "Child of the Islands", namely our little Prince of Wales, .. in which she exhorts him to all manner of righteousness & justice & proper kingliness. I have read the poem only in extracts as yet, -- but the melody of cadence & eloquence of thought & tongue seem very delectable.'

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

  

Benjamin Disraeli : Vivian Grey

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845: 'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'.

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Honore de Balzac : Esther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquier

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845: 'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel by Balzac] [...] It is "Esther" in two volumes, & to all appearance full of life, & interest, & most atrocious wickedness, .. to judge from the first two chapters'.

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John Clare : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845: 'Thank you, thank you, for letting me see the pencilled lines by poor Clare! -- How strangely melancholy, that combination is -- of mental gifts & mental privations! Poor Clare! --'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Samuel Bamford : Passages in the Life of a Radical

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845: 'I know Bamford's "Life of a Radical," which contains some of his verses -- but there seemed to me to be more poetry in the prose. It is a vividly interesting autobiography which I shd. have mentioned to you long ago.'

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Allan Park Paton : 'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill'

Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845: 'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank you much [...] the stanzas on Kennedy's Mill road struck & pleased me so much, that I looked about vainly for your address contained in a mislaid note of yours, in order to write to you on the subject & advise you to choose some worthier medium with the public, than a provincial journal, .. though it were but a magazine. And now you write to tell me that you think of printing a book! -- to which I wish all manner of success [goes on to offer further advice on pursuing career as professional writer]'.

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

  

Ebenezer Elliott : poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845: 'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you mention -- & I always estimated him highly as a true poet, earnest & heart-sound [...] of an imagination not imperiously creative, .. but bright & alive in its sphere & place.'

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

  

George Sand : Le Compagnon du Tour de France

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845: 'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George Sand? I sent for it, with a fancy that it might be a traveller's book .. just [italics]that[end italics] -- & it is one of her best romances, & full of curious interest of different kinds.'

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

  

Robert Browning : 'Claret and Tokay'

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845: 'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a maze about the poems. It was assuredly the wine song & no other which I read of yours in Hood's [...] Do bring in all the Hood poems of your own -- inclusive of the Tokay, because I read it in such haste as to whirl up all the dust you saw, from the wheels of my chariot.'

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

  

Edgar Allan Poe : 'The Raven'

Richard Hengist Horne to Edgar Allan Poe, 17 May 1845: 'Miss Barrett has read the "Raven" and says she thinks there is a fine lyrical melody in it. When I tell you that this lady "says" [...] I mean "writes" -- for although I have corresponded with Miss Barrett these 5 or 6 years, I have never seen her to this day.'

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

  

Robert Browning : 'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis'

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'

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

  

Robert Browning : 'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)'

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'

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

  

Robert Browning : 'The Boy and the Angel'

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'

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

  

Robert Browning : 'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)'

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yours gladly, to get into the Hood poems which have delighted me so -- & first to the St Praxede [sic] which is of course the finest & most powerful .. & indeed full of the power of life .. & of death [...] The "angel & child," with all its beauty & significance! -- and the "Garden Fancies" [...] with that beautiful & musical use of the word "meandering," [...] It does so mate with your "[italics]simmering[end italics] quiet" in Sordello, which brings the summer air into the room as sure as you read it [...] And the Laboratory is hideous as you meant to make it: -- only I object a little to your tendency .. which is almost a habit [...] of making lines difficult for the reader to read .. see the opening lines of this poem.'

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

  

Edgar Allan Poe : 'The Raven'

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 6 September 1845: 'I shd. have written long since to you, if but to thank you for Edgar Poe's ballad .. of which [...] [italics]two[end italics] copies were lying by me when yours came, .. one from some anonymous American, & one from the author himself [...] For the ballad [...] I do not exactly know how to make up my mind to a conclusion about it. There is a certain power in it, no doubt, -- but if the writer had been mad .. professedly mad you know .. I shd. have appreciated the power better. It is not the madness of [italics]passion[end italics], I think .. it is as of an intellect dis[t]raught. There is a ludicrousness which tickles me through & through the melancholy. The "Sir or Madam" for instance! -- how do you bear [italics]that[end italics]?'

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

  

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Posthumous Poems

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Besides the translations, some of the original poems were not in my copy & were, so, quite new to me. "Marianne's Dream" I had been curious about to no end -- I only know it now.'

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

  

Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Marianne's Dream'

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Besides the translations, some of the original poems were not in my copy & were, so, quite new to me. "Marianne's Dream" I had been curious about to no end -- I only know it now.'

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

  

Percy Bysshe Shelley : St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845: 'I have read to the last line of your Rosicrucian; & my scepticism grew & grew through Hume's process of doubtful doubts, & at last rose to the full stature of incredulity .. for I never could believe Shelley capable of such a book, (call it a book!) not even with a flood of boarding-school idiocy dashed in by way of dilution. Altogether it roused me to deny myself so far as to look at the date of the book, & to get up & travel to the other end of the room to confront it with other dates in the "Letters from Abroad" [...] & on comparing these dates in these two volumes before my eyes, I find that your Rosicrucian was "printed for Stockdale" in [italics]1822[end italics], & that Shelley [italics]died in the July of the same year[end italics]!! And unless the "Rosicrucian" went into more editions than one, & dates here from a latter one [...] the innocence of the great poet stands proved -- now does'nt it? For nobody will say that he published such a book in the last year of his life, in the maturity of his genius, & that Godwin's daughter helped him in it!'

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Robert Browning : 'Oh to be in England'

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845: 'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [...] so characteristic of you [...] that I was sorely tempted to ask you to write it "twice over," .. & not send the first copy to Mary Hunter notwithstanding my promise to her. And when you come to print these fragments, would it not be well if you were to stoop to the vulgarism of prefixing some word of introduction, as other people do, you know, .. a title .. a name? You perplex your readers often by casting yourself on their intelligence in these things [...] Now these fragments ... you mean to print them with a line between .. & not one word at the top of it .. now dont you? And then people will read '"Oh, to be in England" & say to themselves .. "Why who is this? .. who's out of England?" Which is an extreme case of course, -- but you will see what I mean .. & often I have observed how some of the very most beautiful of your lyrics have suffered just from your disdain of the usual tactics of writers in this one respect.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Sheet

  

Honore de Balzac : Les Paysans

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845: 'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[end italics] have only seen that one volume) is another proof of the pressure of the times towards sympathies with the people [...] he is Balzac still in "Les Paysans" -- but story there is none, & so no interest -- & no unity, as far as that first volume indicates: & I found it rather hard reading, despite the human character, & the scenic effects. As to "Le Juif" I have done with him, and am not sorry to have done. The last volumes fall off step by step.'

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

  

Eugene Sue : Le Juif errant

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845: 'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[end italics] have only seen that one volume) is another proof of the pressure of the times towards sympathies with the people [...] he is Balzac still in "Les Paysans" -- but story there is none, & so no interest -- & no unity, as far as that first volume indicates: & I found it rather hard reading, despite the human character, & the scenic effects. As to "Le Juif" I have done with him, and am not sorry to have done. The last volumes fall off step by step.'

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

  

Robert Browning : Luria (Act I)

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845: 'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last night, & feel just as a bullet might feel [...] shot into the air & suddenly arrested & suspended. It ("Luria") is all life [comments in detail upon specific passages and phrases] [...] I am snatched up into "Luria" & feel myself driven on to the ends of the poet, just as a reader should.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Henry Fothergill Chorley : Pomfret

Elizabeth Barrett to Henry Fothergill Chorley, ?14 November 1845: 'I have read your three volumes of "Pomfret" with interest & moral assent, & with great pleasure in various ways: -- it is a pure, true book without effort, which, in these days of gesture & rolling with the eyes, is an uncommon thing [...] The best character in the book I take to be "Rose" [...] He is so lifelike, with the world's conventional life, that you hear his footsteps when he walks'.

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Astolphe Louis Leonard Marquis de Custine : Le Monde comme il est

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1845: 'I have been loitering over "Le monde comme il est" & think your thoughts of it. Good things, excellent things, admirable things are in it, but one cannot call it a success.'

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Lydia Sigourney : Scenes in my Native Land

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 20 December 1845: 'Mrs. Sigourney has just sent me, .. just this morning .. her "Scenes in my native land" -- &, peeping between the uncut leaves, I read of the poet Hillhouse, of "sublime spirit & Miltonic energy," standing in "the temple of Fame" as if it were built on purpose for him! -- I supppose he is like most of the American poets .. who are shadows of the true .. as flat as a shadow, as colourless as a shadow, as lifeless & as transitory.'

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

  

Richard Hengist Horne : 'The Monk of Swineshead Abbey'

Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not help speaking coldly a little of it [...] I did think & do, that the last was unworthy of him, & that the first might have been written by a writer of one tenth of his facility. But last night I read the "Monk of Swineshead Abby" & the "Three Knights of Camelot" & "Bedd Gelert" & found them all different stuff, better[,] stronger, more consistent, & read them with pleasure & admiration.'

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Richard Hengist Horne : 'The Three Knights of Camelott: a Fairy Tale'

Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not help speaking coldly a little of it [...] I did think & do, that the last was unworthy of him, & that the first might have been written by a writer of one tenth of his facility. But last night I read the "Monk of Swineshead Abby" & the "Three Knights of Camelot" & "Bedd Gelert" & found them all different stuff, better[,] stronger, more consistent, & read them with pleasure & admiration.'

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Richard Hengist Horne : 'Bedd Gelert'

Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not help speaking coldly a little of it [...] I did think & do, that the last was unworthy of him, & that the first might have been written by a writer of one tenth of his facility. But last night I read the "Monk of Swineshead Abby" & the "Three Knights of Camelot" & "Bedd Gelert" & found them all different stuff, better[,] stronger, more consistent, & read them with pleasure & admiration.'

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Honore de Balzac : Les Petits Menages d'une Femme verteuse

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'Any more news of Balzac? "Les petits maneges" I have read & thought excellent -- but it is a continuation of that odious book .. "Les amours forces" -- "Beatrix," remember.'

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Edward Bulwer Lytton : 'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient'

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E Lytton Bulwer [sic] -- because indeed I dislike his dissertation on cold water as much as anything I have read lately. I [italics]know[end italics] the Malvern Hills, you will be reminded -- & when I think of that peculiar climate where people with delicate chests stand upon the mountain-slopes (such a beautiful country!) & breathe razors [...] I do marvel that any man of common sense can keep his countenance & recommend that situation as a substitute for Italy & Madeira to pulmonary patients [comments further on same subject].'

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Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury : Zoe: The History of Two Lives

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?7 January 1846: 'Zoe [...] I have been reading at last. An extraordinary book certainly. I should take the author to be a free-thinker, by a copious interpretation of the word. The power, & liberty of utterance, are undeniable generally -- but parts of the book are very inferior.'

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Thomas Paine  : The Age of Reason

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'

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Voltaire  : Philosophical Dictionary

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'

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David Hume : Essays

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'

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

  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werther

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'

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

  

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'

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

  

Mary Wollstonecraft : 

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'

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

  

William King : Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, on childhood religious beliefs and practices, 15 January 1846: 'As to the [classical] gods and goddesses, I believed in them all quite seriously, & reconciled them to Christianity [...] As soon as I began to doubt about my goddesses, I fell into a vague sort of general scepticism, .. & though I went on saying "the Lord's prayer" at nights & mornings, & the "Bless all my kind friends" afterwards, by the childish custom .. yet I ended this liturgy with a supplication wihch I found in "King's memoirs" & which took my fancy & met my general views exactly .. "O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul".'

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

  

John Kenyon : 'Sacred Gipsy Carol'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck by the extracts. They may however have been selected without much discriminaton [...] I am very glad that you like the Gipsey Carrol [sic] in dear Mr Kenyon's volume, because it is, & was in M.S., a great favorite [sic] of mine.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

 : The French Stage and the French People, as illustrated in the Memoirs of M. Fleury

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 May 1845: 'The "Memoires de Fleure," was made into an agreeable English book, with certain abbreviations, by Theodore Hook, -- & I read it a few years ago under the title of "The French stage," & something more, or something else'.

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

 

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