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Emma Darwin

 

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Thomas Carlyle : Chartism

'I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of England called ''Chartism.'' It is full of compassion and good feeling but utterly unreasonable.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      

  

Pierre Lanfrey : History of Napoleon I

'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing for ''la gloire''... '

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve : Causeries du lundi (Monday Chats)

[Letter] 'I am taking to some of the St Beuve ''Causeries'', and find them very pleasant, especially anything about the time of Louis XIV always amuses me...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book, Newspaper

  

Charles Buxton : Notes of Thought

[Letter] 'I make C. Buxton's book quite my Bible at present. He hits so many small nails on the head that suit my feelings and opinions so exactly, and I think he is so very acute, and sometimes a little cynical to my surprise.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

William Ewart Gladstone : England's Mission

[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full of elan.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

William Rathbone Greg : Is popular judgement in politics more just than that of the higher classes?

[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full of elan.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Wilhelm Scherer : 

'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Unknown

  

Margaret Oliphant : Squire Arden?

'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well. A very clever description of the feelings of a widow on losing a dull husband she did not much care for...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Unknown

'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly does not suit Wedgwoods, who never have any intuitions.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

Charles Waldstein : The Work of John Ruskin: Its influence on Modern Thought and Life.

''I have been reading Waldstein's ''Ruskin''. The admiring part I did not feel up to, but the chapter on social questions delights me as speaking so strongly of his narrow want of sympathy...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

 : The Bible

'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

A. J. Balfour : The Foundations of Belief

'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

Voltaire : The Age of Lewis XIV

'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impressed with his magnanimity and generosity ... V. seems really to forget where the money came from.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

 

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