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Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile (vol. 1)
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810: 'I am in the middle of [Rousseau's] "Emile." I think parts of it excellent, and the foundation of most of what has been since written on the subject of education. The parts I do not like seem to me more ridiculous than immoral [...] I have, however, only read one volume [...] He has too much of looking up to the sky with larmes dans les yeux, which, though it may be a part and certainly is the consequence of sincere and ardent piety -- I mean that sort of grateful emotion one feels in all the pleasures of fine weather and the works of Nature -- is but a sad loophole or dependance for those who consider it as the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Princess Wilhelmine : Memoirs (vol. 1)
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (August 1812): 'La Princesse Wilhelmine is not as interesting as she might be. There is so much detail of the pettiest kind, all the valets and governesses brought so much sur la scene, but I have only read the first volume. Her descriptions, her abuse and her coarseness, put me much in mind of the Princess of Wales, whose early life was probably spent in much the same way.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: Parliamentary debate
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth 9 November 1814: 'I have just been reading the debate. Tierney's seems a very good speech, and, alas! a very fair attack. I abhor Mr. Whitbread, so I will not allow myself to talk of his.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
: 'French papers'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 June 1815: 'The French papers rouse even me from my political apathy, they are so curious. Fouche's appointment is what excites most discussion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
Dupaty : Voyage en Italie
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: 'I know of no new books. I have been reading an old one in two volumes, two tiny ones, "Voyage en Italie," par Dupaty. It was strongly recommended to me by Mr. Ward, and I can only say that it is as clever and ridiculous as himself, and therefore very entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Milman : Fazio
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: '"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is in parts very fine and in others as bad. It is written by a young Mr. Milman, son to the physician. It is well worth sending for. Some people think it beautiful. Lord Lansdowne brought it to Saltram and said it was one of the finest things he had ever read, so do get it. The woman's character is very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819: 'I think parts of "Don Juan" more beautiful than anything he has written, some wit and a great deal of bad taste.'
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Chalmers : sermon
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820: 'I send you a list of new books. Chalmers' sermon, preached after the disturbances in Glasgow, very good. '"Sketches of Life and Manners," clever and entertaining, supposed to be by Lord John.'
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: 'Sketches of Life and Manners'
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820: 'I send you a list of new books. Chalmers' sermon, preached after the disturbances in Glasgow, very good. '"Sketches of Life and Manners," clever and entertaining, supposed to be by Lord John.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: parliamentary debate
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 August 1820: 'I have been doing my duty, reading the debate. I suppose it would not be easy to find an act of that sort so devoid of pleasure. The Lords seem to me to flounder deeper and deeper'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
: parliamentary debate
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 August 1820: 'I have been doing my duty, reading the debate. I suppose it would not be easy to find an act of that sort so devoid of pleasure. The Lords seem to me to flounder deeper and deeper'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
Walter Scott : The Abbot (volume 1)
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I have only read the first volume. I delight in even the faults of his novels, "Ivanhoe" excepted.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I have only read the first volume. I delight in even the faults of his novels, "Ivanhoe" excepted.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
George Howard : Paestum
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (October 1821): '"Paestum" was in the "Times" to-day. I have cut it out for Berry, who wished to see it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
George Gordon Lord Byron : Sardanapalus
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but not without feeling or passion. Parts of it are magnificent, and the effect of Granville [husband] reading it out loud to me was that I roared [i.e. wept] till I could neither hear nor see. The scene, too, in "Sardanapalus" where Myrrha says "Oh, frown not on me," and the speech, "Why do I love this man?" I think beautiful and affecting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: 'little book upon prayer'
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from St Omer, 27 February 1824: 'You have no idea what a comfort and pleasure it is to me to have your copy of my little book upon prayer. I begin the morning with it, and the handwriting adds to its power of fixing my attention.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Manuscript: Unknown, Copied in MS.
Basil Hall : Journal in South America
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the greatest pleasure. I prefer the first, which I think beautiful. The last are full of soul and subject; but I think there is a little confusion dans la marche.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Basil Hall : Journal in South America
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the greatest pleasure. I prefer the first, which I think beautiful. The last are full of soul and subject; but I think there is a little confusion dans la marche.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
George Howard : verses
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the greatest pleasure. I prefer the first, which I think beautiful. The last are full of soul and subject; but I think there is a little confusion dans la marche.'
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Madame Campan : Journal
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824: 'It amused me to open a new volume of Mme. Campan's journal at these words: "Tu dois juger si je suis fatiguee, mais je m'etais laissee un peu arrieree, et quand une fois les lettres s'amassent, il faut un jour de sainte colere pour deblayer les tiroirs de mon bureau." It is so exactly the state of my case. I have more than a dozen letters for tomorrow's courier [...] I have paid a number of English visits and have been receiving them three times a week, between two and half-past three.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Segur : Life of Buonaparte
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825: 'I feel already the hundred comforts of the [Mardi Gras] carnival being at an end. I have had time already, today and yesterday, to read nearly a whole volume of Segur's Life of Buonaparte during the war in Russia. It is interesting and entrainant beyond measure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: Bible
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 1 August 1825: 'I have begun reading the Bible with notes regularly. I always liked what is called serious reading, to me so much more light in hand than much that is called lively [...] I think it a beautiful and most delightful confirmation of all that the Bible is, that it should be not only the most interesting, but the most awakening pursuit, so that all that is in the letter, when once read in the spirit, becomes the delight and comfort of one's life.'
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: Newspapers
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 22 February 1828: 'I have not read the debates [...] I have no zest at all in politics one way or the other, yet I do read all the papers, all the speeches, but it is upon principle.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
Sumner : Records of the Creation
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829: 'We have a quantity of leisure here, and go on in a spirited manner with Dante. I am now reading a book that interests and enchants me, Sumner's "Records of the Creation."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: Galignani
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, and her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 8 February 1831: 'What odd reports I spy in "Galignani" about Sir Robert Peel! I wish he was with us or against us, only because I hate him in a merciful protecting attitude.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
: society reports (on reader's own daughters)
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 23 September 1831: 'I could hardly believe when I read the "Times" that my girls had dined at the Palais Royal and been to the Italian Opera on the night of the disturbances and vitres brisees. There is nothing like being in the midst of anything for knowing little of its danger.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
: 'Le Temps'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 October 1831: 'Perhaps I am foolish in having no misgivings about public tranquillity [following the Lords' rejection of Reform Bill] [...] Yet when I read in "Le Temps," "ils ont fait leur 25 Juillet," it gives me a shudder.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
Fenn : Sermons
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, that I know much better what I am not and what I ought to be, that the subject interests and occupies me deeply, whilst I am employed on it [...] I have been reading Fenn's sermons and like most of them extremely as explaining and directing. Bradley's third volume is excellent. Adams' "Private Thoughts" one likes better and better. There are parts that one cannot, but these always redeemed by something so true, so feeling, so practical.'
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Bradley :
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, that I know much better what I am not and what I ought to be, that the subject interests and occupies me deeply, whilst I am employed on it [...] I have been reading Fenn's sermons and like most of them extremely as explaining and directing. Bradley's third volume is excellent. Adams' "Private Thoughts" one likes better and better. There are parts that one cannot, but these always redeemed by something so true, so feeling, so practical.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Adams : Private Thoughts
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, that I know much better what I am not and what I ought to be, that the subject interests and occupies me deeply, whilst I am employed on it [...] I have been reading Fenn's sermons and like most of them extremely as explaining and directing. Bradley's third volume is excellent. Adams' "Private Thoughts" one likes better and better. There are parts that one cannot, but these always redeemed by something so true, so feeling, so practical.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: bill/report of [cholera] mortality
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 2 August 1832: 'The cholera remains in its diminished state. Only twenty-eight deaths yesterday; I believe I am the only person in Paris who still looks regularly at the chiffre.'
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: Louis XVIII
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 17 August 1832: 'I enjoy my life here more than I can say. My walks before breakfast, a new work, "Louis XVIII.," which I am so much obliged to Lord Carlisle for having advised me to read. It amuses and interests me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: report of death of Duke of Sutherland
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 26 July 1833: 'I see in the "Globe" just arrived an account of the Duke of Sutherland's death.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Newspaper
: The Morning Herald
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1834): 'I see with delight that your journey is over in the "Morning Herald."'
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Mrs Fry :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] I make to myself all sorts of reproaches. I read in a little book I like, Mrs. Fry's last, "Fear is not sorrow."'
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Mrs Fry :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] The only thing that calms my nerves is sitting at an open window, reading Mrs. Fry or Adams' "Private Thoughts;" but my religion is like my feeling, and I do not find its influence when I have the immediate occupation of it.'
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Adams : Private Thoughts
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] The only thing that calms my nerves is sitting at an open window, reading Mrs. Fry or Adams' "Private Thoughts;" but my religion is like my feeling, and I do not find its influence when I have the immediate occupation of it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Mrs Norton :
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 June 1835: 'I am with the window open, the orange flower smelling too strong, the nightingales singing too loud, and this in the middle of a city is very delicious. There is a beautiful passage in Mrs. Norton's book about that, the gifts so impartially granted to all and what ought to be our gratitude. How excellent, how beautiful I think some of her writing; but somehow or other [...] she is not in keeping with her own opinions and feelings, and it is impossible to bind her up with her own stories.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
: Picciola
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 11 November 1836: 'Read Picciola. It is to me the prettiest thing I know, though it pretes to the scorn of the worldly and unfeeling. Read it without prejudice, letting yourself go to your impressions about it.'
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: 'two little books'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire: 'Let me just say that two little books you gave me were the greatest pleasure and comfort to me whilst I was sick. I am quite well now, only rather wishy-washy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Schiller : 'Ideale'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842: 'Did I not at Tixal translate the "Ideale," [by Schiller] and read my translation to Francis Egerton, by that means persuading him to learn the [German] tongue? If I had not lost the copy, would I not read my poem to prove my words? It is a proof that then, as now, I think it the most beautiful thing I ever read in any language.'
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Schiller : 'Ideale'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842: 'Did I not at Tixal translate the "Ideale," [by Schiller] and read my translation to Francis Egerton, by that means persuading him to learn the [German] tongue? If I had not lost the copy, would I not read my poem to prove my words? It is a proof that then, as now, I think it the most beautiful thing I ever read in any language.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Manuscript: Unknown
De Brosses : Lettres Historiques et Critiques sur l'Italie
Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 25 November 1842: 'You have no idea of the amusement of reading De Brosses over again here [Rome]. His levity is atrocious, his want of principle revolting, and yet his fun, his perfect simplicity, his good-natured malice and joyous recklessness, make him an enchanting companion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Harriet Martineau : 'tales'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old tales, which I have been re-reading, have such an effect upon me that I can scarcely read them. She writes in a way that harrows up every feeling. It is, I think, quite a strange power, because no writer is so simple and so strong upon sorrows that come to all.'
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Harriet Martineau : 'tales'
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old tales, which I have been re-reading, have such an effect upon me that I can scarcely read them. She writes in a way that harrows up every feeling. It is, I think, quite a strange power, because no writer is so simple and so strong upon sorrows that come to all.'
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Harriet Martineau :
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1844): 'I should like Miss Martineau, if somebody would translate it. I have only read a chapter, which I cannot understand.'
