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Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'When we got home [from walking and visiting] I read and played till desert, after desert I wrote to you.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
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Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'As soon as breakfast was over I read and played on the harp'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
: Gallery catalogue, Hardwick Hall
Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 10 October 1801: 'We arrived here last night [...] This morning [...] Caro [Caroline Ponsonby, cousin] and I explored the park [...] I have since been examining the pictures in the gallery with the catalogue. The pictures have been cleaned and look very well.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Cavendish
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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 27 August 1802: 'Ramsgate does not abound with incident [...] We get up at seven, and today for the first time I bathed [...] We breakfast at nine, and then I write, read, and practice till dinner at four.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Unknown
George Lamb : 'John O'Thanet'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 23 September 1802: 'I am now going, my dearest G. (depending upon your secrecy), to transcribe for you some of George's verses, which he gave me last night. Some lines are very good and some very bad, but it will give you a good idea of our proceedings and I think them very amusing. It is a parody on Burns' Tim [sic] O'shanter, and called John O'Thanet. The beginning is long and tiresome, so I shall not send it you. You must know that [italics]John[end italics] is making a tour round the Island, and arrives at Ramsgate just in time for the ceremonies' ball:-- [transcribes 17 lines of satirical poem on Ramsgate social life, opening: '"When now the moon shot forth her gleams And ocean glistened in her beams, When winds blow cold and loud and drear And Ladies 'gin to walk the Pier, When chattering teeth by Luna's light Just stammer out a 'charming night'"] 'I send you these merely because they give a faithful account of our evening walks.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Manuscript: Unknown
: 'le Nouveau pere de famille'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803): 'I have been crying my eyes out over "le Nouveau pere de famille." I wonder I did not hear more of it, as it seems to me quite beautiful; the 3rd volume heartbreaking. I believe I am going to read "Amelie de Mansfield." They are all [italics]dying[end italics] over it and it is the general opinion that as I have read "Delphine" [by Madame de Stael] I may read anything.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Germaine de Stael : Delphine
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803): 'I have been crying my eyes out over "le Nouveau pere de famille." I wonder I did not hear more of it, as it seems to me quite beautiful; the 3rd volume heartbreaking. I believe I am going to read "Amelie de Mansfield." They are all [italics]dying[end italics] over it and it is the general opinion that as I have read "Delphine" [by Madame de Stael] I may read anything.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Hester Piozzi : biography of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Hester Piozzi : biography of Samuel Johnson
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
McCormick : Life of Burke
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 13 November 1803: 'I have been reading M'Cormick's [sic] Life of Burke, a violent and abusive book, but chiefly composed of extracts from his works and speeches in parliament. These I think in eloquence and brilliancy of talent quite unrivalled and in the beginning of his life, his sentiments delightful. I hope you will approve in my choice of [italics]hero[end italics] [comments further][...] I have been reading more (at least more to the purpose) in this last week, than I have for a good while before, and I cannot express to you how much pleasure it gives me, and the difference to me in making my time pass quickly or tediously is inconceivable. Indeed here in bad weather and the very small party we are, it is necessary not to make our sejour here very disagreeable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Belsham : History of England
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 16 November 1803: 'I have begun Belsham's History of England. It begins with Charles the second, and comes down to our present reign. I mean to confine myself for some time to the history of England as it is a shame not to be well acquainted with it, and I certainly am not.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Belsham : Life of Charles II
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Belsham : Life of James II
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Madame de Sevigne : Letters
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring [...] In the evening we all read and oh! the pleasures of Ignorance. Madame de Sevigne's is to me more entertaining and to my shame I confess, much more [italics]new[end italics], than any novel I could read.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Clarendon :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Charles the first I feel pretty well acquainted with, from our old friend Clarendon. I do not mean to go on with Belsham till I have finished Madame de Sevigne's letters, one volume of which I have read. It is a great undertaking to read them through, but they are so very delightful, and I have so much time for reading here, that I do not find it at all too tedious. I do think her letters and her sentiments quite incomparable, and the endless variety of anecdote and wit, assure their never tiring or boring.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Madame de Sevigne : Letters
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 19 November 1803 ('Friday evening'): 'I just this moment found these lines in one of Madame de Sevigne's letters: "Il faut avouer que nous sommes a une belle distance l'une de l'autre, et que si l'on avoit quelquechose sur le coeur, dont on attendit du soulagement, on auroit un beau loisir de se pendre." The tedious six days before it is possible that I should receive your answer to my last letter are indeed enough to tempt one to some tragical end, and I know not how I shall go through them with patience.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Madame de Sevigne : Letters (vol. 5)
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 24 November 1803: 'I lament the reason I am going to give you for keeping to one book at a time. I find from the long habits of inattention and unsteadiness of reading to which I have accustomed myself that I cannot remember or connect what I am about as well if I vary the subject, as when I keep steadily to one, and in fact, I gain as much information from constantly having my book [italics]near[end italics] or [italics]about[end italics] me, I get on very fast [sic]. I am now in the 5th volume of Madame de Sevigne's letters, and I own myself to be quite captivated by her style, wit and variety of sentiment. I think people are much mistaken who only dip into this book, as it is impossible to do her, or one's own judgement of her, justice without reading it through with attention and I am sure then with delight.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Metastasio : Isacco
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (December 1804): 'I have been reading a great deal of Italian, there are a thousand beauties in Metastasio that I had never observed and I had never read some of the best parts of it. "Isacco" is, I think, almost more beautiful and affecting than any of them.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
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Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 November 1805: 'In the morning I read by myself for two hours, and this though not a large portion of time to devote to reading, if persevered in will lighten at least -- if it cannot remove -- the heavy burthen of ignorance that on many subjects I often feel.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Unknown
John Milton : Paradise Lost
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807: 'This morning I got up between 8 and 9, read 500 lines of Milton's Paradise Lost, walked in the garden, played upon a Russian Bilboquet Willy brought me last night, and pride myself upon my candour in confessing this last occupation to you.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Bossuet : [possibly] 'Sur l'histoire universelle'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 3 August 1807: 'I walked an hour and read 50 pages of Bossuet ths morning before breakfast, which to a person who gets up at half past six is easy. I hope you admire my triumphant style. Yet my journal has most of the merit of these good deeds, for I do not know that my industry or Bossuet's eloquence had half the weight as the idea of being able to boast in my writing today had with me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Bossuet :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 12 August 1807: 'I have been, since I last wrote, going on with my [italics]usual[end italics] regularity. I do not think I have ever been in bed after 7, and I am half way through the last volume of Bossuet, with which I am quite delighted.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Bossuet :
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 16 August 1807: 'I got up this morning at 6 and finished Bossuet -- I am very much pleased with it and afraid that Russell's Modern Europe, which I mean to begin tomorrow, will sound but ill after the eloquent language and beautiful style I have been accustomed to in the other.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
Russell : 'Modern Europe'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 29 August 1807: 'I find Modern Europe really very entertaining, at least as much as is quite independant of the Author, Mr. Russell, who seems insupportably flippant and conceited, but my ignorance makes much of it new to me and I am continually deeply interested in the denouement of events that I dare say the rest of the world know as well as their Alphabets. I am now in the beginning of the 16th century, and am rather proud of being a little tired of the three great rivals -- Charles, Henry and Francis, but these are symptoms of ignorance that I cannot expect you to enter into.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Book
: 'Hint to a Young Reviewer'
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 6 November 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth [Foster, Lady Harriet's father's mistress] went to the play last night and I dined alone with my father. Till desert it was a very rapid and silent performance, but we then talked a great deal and I felt very much at my ease with him [...] We [...] talked about the Edinburgh Review and the Hint to a young reviewer, that I sent you, which he thinks very clever. Upon this subject he was really formidable, for in asking me what I thought of different parts, both of the review and the criticism of it, he questioned me so closely, contradicted me so flatly or agreed with me so cautiously, that it was more like a trial than a conversation, and I got up from this cross examination with my face as hot as fire and my hands as cold as ice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
: report of Lord Granville's embarkation
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 December 1807: 'I see in the papers today that Lord Granville is set out upon his journey and it is likely, "dans une saison si rude," as Mr. Foster said of his to C. Howard in September, to be about as unpleasant a one as can be performed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Harriet Cavendish Print: Newspaper
James Thompson : The Castle of Indolence
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808: 'I am glad that I mentioned the Castle of Indolence to you, as I am sure you will be pleased with it. There are descriptions of the Aeolian and British Harp, one of the Musick of Indolence and the other of Industry, and an address to Dreams, that I think beautiful poetry and 3 verses beginning "It was not by vile loitering in ease," that I beg you to admire. Lady Stafford pointed these last out to me, and, in this instance, I admire her taste and agree with her.'
