| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | '"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem]. | Mary Groom | Rev. John Moultrie | Forget Thee? | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite... | Alfred Hitchcock | Gustav Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope.... | Gertrude Savile | David Lewis | Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert | Allgemeine Naturgeschichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert | Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert | Die Symbolik des Traumes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Oliver Cromwell | His Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Giovanni Boccaccio | Opere (vols I-IV (of 6)) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Carl Von Savigny | Of the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Darlegung des wahren Verhaltnisses der Naturphilosphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Denkmal der Schrift von den gottlichen Dingen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Einleitung zu seinem Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Philosophie und Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Publius Virgilius Maro | Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on ... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " Thi... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Giovanni Boccaccio | Il Decamerone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... " | William Wordsworth | Uvedale Price | Essay on the Picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet:
"I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I... | anon | Oliver Goldsmith | Edwin and Angelina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book u... | William Wordsworth | David Herd | Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | Chaim Lewis | Ivan Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished .... | William Wordsworth | Viscount Lowther | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way ... | Charles Lamb | Vincent Bourne | Latin Poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into... | Wordsworth Family | Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte Guyon | Life of Lady Guion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I w... | William Wordsworth | Walter Savage Landor | Simoneida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The L... | a Scottish joiner's son | David Moir | The Life of Mansie Wauch | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Hume's Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Essays and Treatises] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that h... | | Henry De Vere Stacpoole | The Blue Lagoon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that h... | Betty Martin | Henry De Vere Stacpoole | The Blue Lagoon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know wheth... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Belgrave Hoppner | Elegy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Rev. William Beloe | The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Vittorio Alfieri | [marginalia] | Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | Count Vittorio Alfieri | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benvenuto da Imola | Commentary on Dante, Commedia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) rela... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Octavius Gilchrist | pamphlets | |
| 1850-1899 | '[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson' | Rose Macaulay | Johann David Wyss | Swiss Family Robinson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the... | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Grecian History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read ... | Anne Lister | August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Leontine de Blondheim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Ivan Turgenev | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Victor-Marie Hugo | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Rev. Richard H. Barham | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my sp... | Anne Lister | David Henry Urquhart | Commentaries on classical learning | Print: Book |
| | Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen... | Anne Lister | By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton | Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a reclu... | Thomas Hardy | Violet Hunt | White Rose of Withered Leaf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England from the Earliest Times... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell)... | Thompson Family | Johann David Wyss | The Swiss Family Robinson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | David Livingstone | [Travels: perhaps, 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Oliver Joseph Lodge | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | David Livingstone | [Travels, probably 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in th... | William Gladstone | various | A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ... | Constance Smedley | Henry David Thoreau | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat toget... | Leslie Stephen | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you... | Margaret Oliphant | David Wingate | My Little Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the... | Katherine Mansfield | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ... | Jennie Lee | Havelock Ellis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli... | Margaret Powell | Havelock Ellis | [book on sex] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Havelock Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance." | Leslie Stephen | Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Poet at the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel... | Leslie Stephen | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of P... | Maria Edgeworth | Vittorio Alfieri | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Henry David Thoreau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 4 August 1839, about event following visit of David Pryce, a young Irish curate, to ... | Charlotte Bronte | David Pryce | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another oppo... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wode... | Walter Citrine | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | [short school story] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than ... | Flora Thompson | Giovanni Battista Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, &c. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Evelyn Everett-Green | The Head of the House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Virgil | The Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Ovid | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Voltaire | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that
"'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an Afri... | anon | Olive Schreiner | The Story of an African Farm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: e... | Viscountess Rhondda | Havelock Ellis | The Psychology of Sex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the N... | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A... | Ellen Weeton | David Brewster | The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. Brews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Coun... | Robert Sharp | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know that Historians are very subject to give us their own views, instead of Facts. Hume is very partial to Royalty... | Robert Sharp | David Hume | The History of England from the Invasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 3 pp of ms at the end of v.1 appear to be brief notes abstracted from details in the text. Each page is ruled and divi... | Dr Sibbald | Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila | A general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on poisons, drawn from the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, considered as to their relations with physiology, pathology and medical jurisprudence by M.P. Orfila, translated from the French ? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' | Benjamin Newton | Vasily Golovnin | Narrative of my captivity in Japan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? f... | Benjamin Britten | Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin | Boris Godonof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.'
| Benjamin Britten | Benvenuto Cellini | Autobiography | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Silvio Pellico | Prisons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | David Ricardo | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinr... | Joseph Henry Green | Novalis | Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. | Vegetius | De Re Militari (Epitoma rei militaris) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1576-77, just before Philip Sidney went o... | Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy .... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv... | Gabriel Harvey | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney w... | Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.' | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.' | William Richard Grahame | David Thompson | History of the Late War Between Great Britain and | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Havelock Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | David Herbert Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote:
"'My Coz... | Maria | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading Josephus's "Jewish Antiques" I find his opinion was (or at least it was a prevailing notion in his time) t... | Thomas Turner | Flavius Josephus | The antiques of the Jews | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Olive Schreiner | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's ... | Henry James | Gustave Flaubert | correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done... | Samuel Richardson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Josephus's "Jewish Antiques".' | Thomas Turner | Flavius Josephus | The genuine works of Flavius Josephus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening read part of the "Jewish Antiques".' | Thomas Turner | Flavius Josephus | The genuine works of Flavius Josephus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answeri... | | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D of Prospect Villa | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'One morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a... | Mrs Smith | Dr D of Prospect Villa | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Dora Olive Thompson | That Girl Ginger | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Nevil Shute | Pied Piper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Eve Curie | Madame Curie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nicholls | Down the Garden Path | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grie... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Memoires D'un Temoin De La Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of i... | Samuel Richardson | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read "the Hermit" and "Alfrida". There are charming Things in both. I read ... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them... | Lady Bradshaigh | David Mallett | Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Young once told me, that Dr Hartley's Two Volumes on Man were the Most Original of any thing he had seen published... | Dr (Edward?) Young | David Hartley | Observations on Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | Mesmer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | Thatched Roof, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | Star Spangled Manner, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | H.V. Morton | In Search of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Samuel Bailey | Alexander van Humboldt | Cosmos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been readi... | Henry James | Ivan Turgenev | Senilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it suc... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Euphorion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Miss Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Miss Brown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | [Life of Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro'... | Samuel Richardson | David Hartley | [passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro'... | Lady Bradshaigh | David Hartley | Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, w... | Samuel Richardson | various authors | correspondence and other papers | Manuscript: Letter, letters and papers |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Rosamond Lehmann | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Leslie Runcimann | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Ivy Compton Burnett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Sylvia Townsend Warner | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stori... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Hauntings | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [compiling the anthology "The Female Reader", Mary Wollstonecraft spent] 'long hours reading, for the extracts include... | Mary Wollstonecraft | [various] | [various works] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Silvio Pellico | Prisons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | David Hume | Decline and fall of the Roman empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Rel... | Thomas Carter | David Simpson | A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were ... | Thomas Carter | Rev. Thomas Scott | [various essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Masson | [essay on the Life of Chatterton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud] | David Masson | 'The Three Devils' | Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856 |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Richard Chenevix Trench | An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is... | Henry James | Mrs Everard Cotes | His Honour and a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | David Ramsay | History of the American Revolution, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last... | Henry James | Viscount Garnet Wolseley | The Story of a Soldier's Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experienc... | | Molly V Hughes | London Child of the Seventies, A | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'If I enjoy a book I often write to its author. It seems to me a matter of politeness between one artist and another. ... | | Molly V Hughes | A London Child of the Seventies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our root... | | Molly V Hughes | London Child of the Seventies, A | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to L... | David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan | David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan | Anonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of Buchan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by... | Elizabeth Barrett | [author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anon | History of a Flirt, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. ... | John Marsh | Benvenuto Cellini | The life of Benvenuto Cellini | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Vaughan Wilkins | Being Met Together | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ... | James Dawson Burn | Chevalier Ramsay | Life of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Pa... | Joseph Gutteridge | Voltaire | Dictionary of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni Boccaccio | [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni (?) Villani | Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Vespasiano da Bisticci | [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV, | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Mu... | George Eliot [pseud] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | [unknown, on the Confraternita] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Coventry Patmore | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Fl... | Charlotte Mew | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena | La Calandra | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio' | George Eliot [pseud] | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came... | Charlotte Mew | David Garnett | Go She Must | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.' | Alfred Tennyson | Coventry Patmore | The aesthetics of gothic architecture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | David Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.' | Mary Godwin | Veit Weber | Die Teufelsbeschworung / The Sorcerer | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Friedrich Strauss | Life of Jesus [second version] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Victor Hugo | L'Homme Qui Rit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"' | George Eliot | Pierre Victor Renouard | History of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc... | Lawrence Durrell | Havelock Ellis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | David Herbert Lawrence | Sea and Sardinia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | David Hume | The History of England (presumably) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Victor Hugo | Ruy Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | David Friedrich Strauss | Das Leben Jesu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the life of Alfieri.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the life of Alfieri'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she op... | Harriet Martineau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | David Hume | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a v... | Mary Berry | Virgil | Works | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Vittorio Alfieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 19 January 1813, accompanying his ode on the burning of Moscow by French forces: 'I sent ... | | Uvedale Price | Draft ode on French retreat from Moscow | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who rea... | Mary Berry | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books "Victor Jaquemont's Let... | Mary Berry | Victor Jaquemont | Letters describing a journey in India | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Varro | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and... | Gabriel Harvey | Lodovico Domenichi | Facetie, motti, et burle | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Vegetius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horac... | Pupils at Mr Perry's school | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's... | Harriet Martineau | David Hartley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Still unwell ... had in the course of the day read a good deal of "Colton's Work" with which I was very well satisfie... | Joseph Jenkinson | Calvin Colton | Manual for Emigrants to America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One thing, however, yet remains to us & dares to baffle all the wickedness of the Ministry, the tyranny of the Crown,... | Frances Burney | Rev. George Butt | Timoleon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laura's greatest find was a battered old copy of Belzoni's "Travels" propping open somebody's pantry window. When she... | Flora Thompson | Giovanni Battista Belzoni | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laura was lucky enough to be given a bound volume of "Good Words" - or was it "Home Words"? - in which the Queen's ow... | Flora Thompson | Queen Victoria | Leaves from Her Majesty's Life in the Highlands | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wif... | Jane Austen | Revd T. Jefferson | Request for subscribers for "Two Sermons" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | David Lyndsay [pseud] | Dramas of the Ancient World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Philosophische Schrifte[n] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Philosophische Schrifte[n] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | System des transcendentalen Idealismus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | System des transcendentalen Idealismus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Ueber die Gottheiten von Samothrace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hugh of Saint Victor | De Sacramentis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | M Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | David Friedlander | Sendschreiben an seine Hochwurden Herrn Oberconsistorialrath und Probst Teller zu Berlin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Theodicee, das ist, Versuch von der Gute Gottes | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | David Hartley | Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Von Matthisson | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Von Matthisson | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Ludwig Von Hardenberg | Novalis Schriften (Vol I of 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne | Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library [...] The author ... | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Memoirs of Living Authors" appears to be quite a catch-penny job. The author gives a list of their works & somet... | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".' | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library. It is a book on ... | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of "Catherine and Petruchio"; abridged from Shakespeare's pl... | Joseph Hunter | David Garrick | Catharine and Petruchio. A Comedy Altered from Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of' | William Windham | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Up by nine. Read a little this morning in Lord Bolingbroke's "Study of History". What extreme foppery! Yet what can o... | William Windham | Henry Saint John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Letter on the Study and Use of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [..... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy (Titus Livius) | History of Rome Book XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays' | John Clare | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt ... | Lucy Aikin | Alexander von Humboldt | Personal Narrative of Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Pr... | Lucy Aikin | Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "P... | Martha Aikin | Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost... | Thomas Carlyle | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by "Salathiel", a pious prose romance of that then popular wr... | Philip Gosse | Rev. George Croly | Salathiel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 24 Oct 1788:
'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 13 Dec 1788
Another long quotation from Smith's translation:
'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby.
'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for... | Frances Hamilton | Rev J Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.' | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickw... | Walter Wilson | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Les filles des platre" by M. Xavier de Montepin it is like the generality of French Novels, and does not... | Albert Battiscombe | Xavier Aymon de, Count Montepin | Les Filles de platre. Les trois debuts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading H.V. Morton, "I James Blunt". I read it in half an hour. It is propaganda but first-class propaganda and inte... | | H V Morton | I James Blunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Dec... | | Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Dec... | | Evelyn Waugh | Vile Bodies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On reading the subjoined chapters on the Turkish Bath, in
Mr Urquhart's "Pillars of Hercules", I was electrified; an... | Dr Richard Barter | David Urquhart | The Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, we... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italic... | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Delarivier Manley | Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 5th March,
I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 12th July.
I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that ... | Gerald Moore | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreati... | anon | Rev Lewis Tomlinson | Recreations in Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th December
?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.
| Gerald Moore | Victor MacClure | The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '29th March, Tuesday.
?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite.
30th March, Wednesday.
These last few days I have been readin... | Gerald Moore | V. Marguerite | La Gar?onne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th October 1928 (Saturday).
So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading
?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - tr... | Gerald Moore | Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol | Taras Boulba | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its s... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Gustav Fechner | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other so... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | Smoke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | A Sportsman's Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has pre... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenio... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to w... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Histoire de l'astronomie moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Histoire de l'astronomie moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the suppositi... | Thomas Carlyle | Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld | Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England During the Reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans tha... | Arnold Bennett | Henry Havelock Ellis | Affirmations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...' | Thomas Green | Uvedale Price | An essay on the picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetchin... | Sydney Smith | August von Kotzebue | Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...' | Thomas Green | Johann David Michaelis | Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Giovanni Perrone | Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | Richard Lovell AND Maria Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend i... | Arnold Bennett | Havergall Bates | The Believing Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido; tragicomedio pastorale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Giovanni Battista Guiarini | Il pastor fido; tragicomedio pastorale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley and Clara begin Orlando Furioso'. | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley fi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Lieden des jungen Werthers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | August von Kotzebue | Das merkwurdigste Jahr meines Lebens | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | August von Kotzebue | Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Friedrich von Schiller | Der Geisterseher | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where
?Winter lingering chills the lap ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | [The traveller] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazz... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werter | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The traveller | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and read the memoirs of the princess of Bareith' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Barieth | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Memoirs aloud' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Barieth | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Bareith | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off th... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | David Hume | Essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Barieth | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.' | Mary Godwin | Magrave de Bareith | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Oliver Onions | The Open Secret | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? w... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Havelock Ellis | From Rousseau to Proust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Hume | Dialogue on natural religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Ramsay | Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of ... | Arnold Bennett | Nevile Foster | The Universal Machine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribe Peacocks poem' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Love Peacock | Rhododaphne; or, the Thessalian Spell | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hume' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Essays and treatises on several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Four Dissertations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud [to] us - We sleep at Rheims.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | August W. von Schlegel | Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud and we travel on in a pleasant country among nice people - We sleep at Dijon' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | August W. von Schlegel | Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Battista Manso | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the... | Samuel Pepys | David Lloyd | Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... personages | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Veit Weber | The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Veit Weber | The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'. | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri: Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to
see Shelley at ele... | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.' | Claire Clairmont | Rev. Joseph Berrington | A Literary History of the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15... | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday March 13th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography [makes detailed notes from vol. I part i in
this]'. | Claire Clairmont | David Erskine Baker | Biographica dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 14th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography'. | Claire Clairmont | David Erskine Baker | Biographia dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 5th. [...] Read Memoires of Voltaire written by himself [notes anecdote from this]'. | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la
Barca [quotes three ... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 20th. Read History of the Revolution at Naples.' | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 5th. Read Saggio [...] storico sulla Rivoluzione di Napoli.'
[records of reading this text also appea... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della
rivoluzione di Napoli... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I
line 33].'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.
[...]
'Wednesday July 5th. [...] ... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'
[readings from latter text also ... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Myrrha | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Cajo Graccho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
| Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'
| Claire Clairmont | Johann David Wyss | The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Galeotto Manfredi, principe di Faenza | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Filippo of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Filippo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Polinice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Rosmunda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Virginia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedi... | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Agide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Battista Manso | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - & Faublas' | Mary Shelley | Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Peacock | Melincourt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs.
[...]
'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I th... | Claire Clairmont | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun by Himself and Concluded by His Daughter, Maria Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Day | The History of Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Bocaccio' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [possibly] Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Decameroni' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Decamerone' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entrie... | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Vita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da esso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in
the Evening.
[... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's
Memoirs.'
[records an... | Claire Clairmont | Benvenuto Cellini | Eine Geschichte des XVI Jahrhunderts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederick Sylvester North Douglas | An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 26 April 1823:
'Russel works us most properly now in Gramma... | John Russell (master), Thomas Moulton-Barrett, and other boys at Charterhouse | Ovid | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826:
'Mr Price's desire that I should have read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826:
'When Luxmoore was with us, a little before he called at Hope... | [probably] Charles Scott Luxmoore | Uvedale Price | dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his MS dissertation on Charterhouse pronunciation... | Elizabeth Barrett and Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett | Uvedale Price | dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit
& poetic excellence... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827:
'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price and James Commeline | correspondence on pronunciation of classical languages | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | James Commeline to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 December 1827:
'Together with Mr Price's book, allow me to return you my be... | The Rev. James Commeline Jr | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 December 1827:
'It gave me great pleasure to hear that you think so favorabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the bible - and Muller's universal History' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johannes von Muller | Allgemeine Geschichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Travels before the flood' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Reisen vor der Sundfluth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Travels before the flood' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Reisen vor der Sundfluth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28-29 May 1828:
"If you have not read the Essay on the Picturesque, will you... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | Essay on the Picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vicar of Wakefield' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834:
'I heard of poor Drounieau's case in t... | Robert Browning | Gustave Drounieau | Resignee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia' | Mary Shelley | Lodovico Antonio Muratori | Dissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell'Italiana favella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Mary Shelley | Lodovico Antonio Muratori | Dissertazioni sopra le Antichit? italiane gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell' Italiana favella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence ... | Charles Darwin | Alexander von Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Vittorio Alfieri | Unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Edgeworths life.' | Mary Shelley | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque' | Mary Shelley | David Lyndsay [pseud.] | Dramas of theAncient World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 3 October. I am reading "A Room of One's Own". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write ... | Barbara Pym | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gratifying letter from John Fossett: "Very many thanks for two instalments of diary. Joan and I derived hours of ple... | John Fossett | Vere Hodgson | MS diary | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply excit... | Mary Shelley | Anselm von Feurbach | Caspar Hauser | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
''Have you observed what I have observed [...] that Ch... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | Les derniers jours d'un condamne | Print: Book |
| | 'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from... | | H.V. Morton | In the Steps of the Master | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 June 1843:
'My idea of [italics]V[ed italics] has always been .. a cl... | Elizabeth Barrett | V | IX Poems by V. (extracts) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Edward Bouverie Pusey | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near he... | Robert Louis Stevenson | D.V. Thomas | advertisement | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'Of [italics]Sandeau[end italics] I have read very lit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau | Marianna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different par... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly enterta... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Giovanni Baptista Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & so... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Giovanni Giraud | Commedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read only Italian books - and have just finished Niccolini's Foscarini, which is a fine masculine, energetic perfor... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Giovanni Battista Niccolini | Antonio Foscarini | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Flaubert | La Tentation de Saint Antoine. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing,
as was her habit du... | Virginia Stephen | Walter Savage Landor | Pericles and Aspasia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short
narratives, all apparentl... | Madge Vaughan | Virginia Stephen | short stories | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant
form", but Virginia... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | Art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925:
'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque... | Gwen Raverat | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Unknown, In proof copy |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927:
'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Knole and the Sackvilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas
1932. The first words of the ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934:
'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when the... | Stephen Spender | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Galeotto Manfredi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Caio Gracco | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938:
'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] seco... | Philip Morrell | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938:
'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] seco... | Philip Morrell | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn... | Benedict Nicolson | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it al... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Seducers in Ecuador | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Ludovico Ariosto | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous tho... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-ch... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | John, Viscount Morley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll h... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand thoug... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in th... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the commo... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't tell you how much I like "The Sun and the Fish", (all the more because it is all about things we did together... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Sun and the Fish | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Clive Bell | Clive Bell | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Vanessa Bell | Vanessa Bell | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | [journalism] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Crotchet Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Love Peacock | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be ab... | Margaret A. Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Appre... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-ch... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that ... | Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execut... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume) | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.' | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [a friend] took me to a bar which he said was quite respectable, but the proprietor showed me pornographic photogr... | Harold Nicolson | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story o... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L... | Lytton Strachey | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L... | Lytton Strachey | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p... | Thomas Hardy | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p... | Thomas Hardy | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anyt... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | On the Lake | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On 22 December the Woolfs went to Charleston for Christmas [...] Clive and Vanessa Bell [sister to Virginia Woolf] an... | Vanessa Bell and family | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 1923 diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Collected Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the meantime, let me say that I read you with delight, even though I wanted to exclaim, "Oh, BUT,Virginia..." on 5... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a ... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Country Notes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Viola Meynell | Alice Meynell. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | The Rev. John Skinner | The Journal of a Somerset Rector | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How do you like Thalaba? There are always so many nothings to be done in London daily, that I have not read ten lines... | Matthew Lewis | Marrie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | James Somerville Somerville | Memorie of the Somervilles being a history of the baronial House of Somerville | Manuscript: MS book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.' | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | Heritage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "I have been reading Grey Wethers," said the Marquis- "a magnificent book. The descriptions of the downs are as fin... | Lord Curzon | Vita Sackville-West | Grey Wethers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the l... | Vanessa Bell | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Extract of letter to Virginia Woolf from E. M. Forster, copied by Woolf in diary entry of 16 November 1931:
'"I ex... | E. M. Forster | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 July 1932: 'Alice Ritchie ringing me up [...] said "One thing I want to say. Please dont go so far away in... | Alice Ritchie | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | 'novel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) muc... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Yout... | Virginia Woolf | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over aga... | | Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand | Letters of the Marquise du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over aga... | | Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand | [Letters to Voltaire] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He sat down on the floor beside me, and helped me to look up "droil". "What's this?" he said, taking up my proofs. ... | Robert Bridges | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading t... | Vita Sackville-West | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Ivan Turgenev | Smoke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was glad to have the enjoyment of reading Schlegel's History of Literature. It is a fine work, built on a sure foun... | Charlotte Bury | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel | [probably] Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation... | Charlotte Bury | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authori... | Miss V[-] | Giovanni Battista Guarino | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.' | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chise... | Walter Sickert | Gustave Flaubert | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Ex-Detective Sergeant B. Leeson | Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of Sarawak | Good Morning and Good Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its pri... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Overing Sturgis | Belchamber | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Re... | Ethel Smyth | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is a... | Arnold Bennett | Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltuikov | The Golovleff Family | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian ... | Adrian Stephen | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c... | Virginia Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.' | John Maynard Keynes | Virginia Woolf | The Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F... | Elizabeth Bowen | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg... | James Hogg | David Laing | [review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Edinburgh Monthly Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you... | James Hogg | David Laing | [review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'The Mountain Bard' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by ... | Theodora Bosanquet | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have pant... | Philippa Strachey | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme th... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary (17 May 1932) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Havelock Ellis | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 'The Leaning Tower' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Sylvester Judd | Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says l... | Florence Nightingale | Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & fin... | Ethel Smyth | Virginia Woolf | The Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | Un Coeur Simple | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully goo... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Desperate Character and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday' | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or Margaret | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, ... | Joseph Conrad | Victor Hugo | Les Travailleurs de la Mer | Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Al... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | The Jew and Other Stories | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the pla... | Arnold Bennett | E.V. Lucas | The Sane Star | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable,constructed and inhabi... | Joseph Conrad | Olive Garnett | The Petersburg Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath ... | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]' | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | (An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than ... | Edith Sitwell | Sacheverall Sitwell | All Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical Fantasia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 March 1845:
'I have the first volume of Victor Hugo's "Odes et Ballad... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | Odes et Ballades (volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Voltaire | Philosophical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos... | Richard Shackleton | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | La Dictionnaire Philosophique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905:
'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin... | Leonard Woolf | Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al | Euphrosne | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... | Antonia White | Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard et Pecuchet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his inventi... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attemp... | Antonia White | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907:
'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the trai... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912:
'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can ... | Leonard Woolf | Virginia Stephen | fiction MSS | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Various | Autographs | Manuscript: Autographs |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anne Lefevre Dacier | [translations of and notes on Homer] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...) | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I let Colonel Haworth read a bit of it. "By God!" he said, "this is the first book I've read on Persia which gives o... | | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dearest - you don't know what "The Land" means to me! I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to... | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | "memoir of Old Bloomsbury" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Valentine Chiriol | Indian Unrest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moreover, her train had arrived one-and-a-half hours before luncheon, so she had gone to the Paddington Hotel and sat... | Ethel Smyth | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in t... | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | Solitude | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things th... | Ford Madox Ford | Ivan Turgenev | A Sportsman's Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...... | Ford Madox Ford | Violet Hunt | Flurried Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [..... | Rebecca West | Violet Hunt | Flurried Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through ... | Albert Boni | Violet Hunt | Flurried Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Violet Hunt | I Have This to Say | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sutton and Larkin grew steadily closer as they moved up through the senior school. Tiring of their childish reading, ... | Philip Larkin | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Virginia Woolf | Waves, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly publis... | Philip Larkin | Vernon Watkins | Ballad of the Mari Lwyd, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In all seriousness he [Victor Gollancz] could flaunt a prophetic grandeur, or perhaps simply uncontrolled showmanship... | Ralph Glasser | Victor Gollancz | "Let my people go": some practical proposals for dealing with Hitler's massacre of the Jews | |
| 1850-1899 | #Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Victor Hugo | various romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition fro... | Anne Romilly | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | [a narrative] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Gustave Flaubert | Correspondance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]".... | Anne Romilly | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opi... | Anne Romilly | August Wilhelm von Schlegel | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been much instructed by the readings on poetry and long for the Irish Tales'. | Romilly Family | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Readings on poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquis... | Ralph Glasser | Olivia Manning | Balkan Trilogy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples inclu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | The Sailor's Return | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the 6th of March came out Lord Bolingbroke's works, published by Mr David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings,... | James Boswell | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | Philosophical works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Des Singularites de la Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple | [letter to Boswell] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure ... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | James Boswell | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Flavius Josephus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Hester Thrale | David Garrick | [light verse] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Be... | Edward Morgan Forster | V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin | (excerpted) writings on literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor mat... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Life of Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I... | James Boswell | George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I... | Samuel Johnson | George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | [apology for beating a bookseller] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Roman History From The Foundation of The City of Rom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple | [books of history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Virgil | Aeneid (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of th... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Neville Figgis | The Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of God | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering m... | Edward Morgan Forster | Van Wyck Brooks | The Ordeal of Mark Twain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Dele... | Alfred Tennyson | Ovid | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Whewell, who was [Tennyson's] tutor, he called "the lion-like man" and had for him a great respect. It is reported th... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very plea... | Arthur Hallam | David Hartley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Walter Savage Landor | Imaginary Conversations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Gustave Flaubert | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | David Dalrymple | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have at last sent back Lord Hailes's sheets, I never think about returning them, ... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate ... | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Aimard | unidentified novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as ... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | Woman and Labour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | The Story of an African Farm | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883:
'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing on... | Alfred Tennyson | Ovid | works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife ... | Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De Vere | Coventry Patmore | The Angel in the House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | Aeneid VI | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Giovanni Boccacio | [tales from the 'Decameron'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland | [unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to his associate George Sandys] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, i... | Mr Maclaurin | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" have not that painted form which is the taste of this age; but it ... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by him... | James Boswell | David Hume | My Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | James Boswell | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | William Warburton | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Joshua Reynolds | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Bennet Langton | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Charles Fox | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I comforted myself last night when I couldn't sleep, by reading those truly wonderful passages about the shells and s... | Edith Sitwell | Sacheverall Sitwell | Sacred and Profane Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | La Tentation de saint Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | Salammbo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Olivier Basselin […]
"On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais
seront-ils les maistres?
Le vin est gu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Olivier Basselin | A Son Nez | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | David Stewart of Garth | Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlands of Sctland, with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide... | | Vera Brittain | The Dark Tide | Print: Book |
| | '[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expu... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | [alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel) | Virgil | Georgics I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | Samuel Johnson | Delarivier Manley | Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of The New Atalantis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | James Boswell | Giovanni Paolo Marana | Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by Davi... | Samuel Johnson | David Mallet | [a poem about Aberdeen] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a di... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I felt low and naturally prone to be irritable, and from the deep feeling of the difficulties in doing my part toward... | Elizabeth Fry | C.H.V. Bogatsky | Golden Treasury for the Children of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Charles Causley | Olive Higgins Prouty | Stella Dallas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Mrs Causley | Olive Higgins Prouty | Stella Dallas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh... | George Otto Trevelyan | Oliver Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'March 1st. Aldworth. Hallam read the 4th Aeneid with A.; they study Virgil to... | Alfred and Hallam Tennyson | Virgil | Aeneid IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor H... | Alfred Tennyson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, fro... | George Otto Trevelyan | Livy | Historiorum libri | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard et Pecuchet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc... | Samuel Johnson | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | Rev. F. D. Maurice | Rev. F. D. Maurice | paper on meanings of words 'nature,' 'natural,' 'supernatural.' | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | S.J. Alvaro Semedo | The History of China | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Flavius Josephus | The History of the Jewish Wars | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Vincent Le Blanc | The world surveyed: or, The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent Le Blanc | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | Georgics (II) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux | [a sonnet] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Vincent de Voiture | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner a... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard El... | Giovanni Povoleri | Giovanni Povoleri | [translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Giovanni Povoleri | [a sonnet on love and friendship] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere ... | Alfred Tennyson | Ivan Turgenev | Lisa | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere ... | Alfred Tennyson | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern ... | Winifred Holtby | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to... | Winifred Holtby | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three c... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Guardian Angel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Étienne Pivert de Senancour | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you f... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Ode | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Some poems have been lately printed here by the Revd. E... | Robert Southey | Henry Evans Holder | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation thi... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Translation of Horace, Odes, 2:14 | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'Of your ode a few words before I set to transcribing... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Ode | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Aeneid I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Eclogues I | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I walked a while, and read of Babington, and then went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | Gervase Babington | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, R... | Mary Augusta Ward | Alfred von Harnack | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 11-18 May 1794: 'Your Anacreon & Æschylus please me much — unluckily ... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | translations and verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 August 1794: 'When your ode reachd me it reminded me of neglect & I b... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Ode | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Victor Margueritte | La Garconne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I spent the after none in my Chamber and hard Mr Rhodes read a book that was mad, as it was saied, by my lord of Esex... | Richard Rhodes | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex | Apology of the Earl of Essex against those who falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of this kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wi... | Richard Rhodes | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex | Apology of the Earl of Essex against those who falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of this kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Your stanza on Hope may be made excellent. your tr... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | verses on Hope | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'If you print your Musæus print the Greek likewise... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | The Loves of Hero and Leander | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic... | Robert Southey | David Humphreys | verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | The Lusiad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced ... | Joseph Conrad | E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] Lucas | Over Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] C... | George Grote and Charles Cameron | David Ricardo | 'Political Economy' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] C... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'Political Economy' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Saturday -- Rose at 1/... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 May, 1796: 'The reliance that I can place on my own application ren... | Robert Southey | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is we... | Ottoline Morrell | David Herbert Lawrence | Kangaroo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1-7 January, 1797: '...the view is bounded by the accursed smoke of Londo... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | ‘Babylon and Sion’ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 29 January 1797: 'I have received Bedfords book this morning — he ha... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | The Loves of Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | Gustave Flaubert | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, c. 25 June, 1797: '“The Rhedycenian Barbers” is Grosvenor Bedfords — & a most ... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | The Rhedycenian Barbers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return ... | Robert Southey | Johannes Ravisius Textor | De Memorabilibus et Claris Mulieribus: Aliquot Diversorum Scriptorum Opera | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee... | Arnold Bennett | Havelock Ellis | The Dance of Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (January 1819):
'Rose at 9 [...] Mr. Bury brought me ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'on the depreciation of our paper currency' | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150' | Thomas Kitching | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'on the depreciation of our paper currency' | |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'reply to Mr Bosanquet' | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Giovanni Pontano | Pontani Opera, 'Hendecasyllaborum, Liber Primus' xx | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819:
'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a... | George Grote | David Hume | Essay on the Academical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 27 March 1819:
'George Norman appeared [...... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ... | George Grote | Voltaire | Dictionnaire [?philosophique] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822:
'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc... | George Grote | Voltaire | Dictionnaire [?philosophique] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g... | George Grote | Voltaire | 'Miracles' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By t... | C.M.G. [anon] | Rev. J.E. Hankinson | St Paul at Philippi | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40):
'The other day at the Athenaeum I took up one of the volumes of... | George Grote | Victor Cousin | Documens pour servir a l'Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.' | Blanche Ridges | Elizabeth von Arnim | Solitary Summer, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his Afrikander memories. I didn't quite tell him how good they are for... | Joseph Conrad | Reginald Perceval Gibbon | Afrikander Memories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the S... | William Soutar | David Guest | Dialectical Materialism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are besides, Sir Adam Fergusson, Colin Mackenzie, James Hope, Dr. James Buchan, Claud Russell, and perhaps two ... | Walter Scott | Virgil | Aeneid | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797):
'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] w... | Harriet Ponsonby | Voltaire | L'Enfant prodige | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Salammbô | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Leopold von Ranke | History of the Popes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.' | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.' | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipat... | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille [ed.] | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len... | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille [ed.] | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.' | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Gentleman from San Francisco | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Village | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o... | John Ruskin | Octave Feuillet | La Petite Comtesse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the way up I read Lady Chatterley's Lover, in the new full continental edition a friend got from Germany. I now re... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | David Herbert Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Har... | Elizabeth Edminson | Walter Savage Landor | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Har... | Members of the XII Book Club | Walter Savage Landor | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your gift is none the less welcome because I read your book a few weeks ago. E[dward] Garnett, Duckworth's literary a... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | The Brassbounder | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] L... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Go... | Thomas Carlyle | David (dr) Brewster | Recommendation | Manuscript: Letter of recommendation |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray. | Catherine Austen | Rev. Francis Murray | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went ... | Hilary Spalding | Vicky Baum | Hotel Berlin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'The school library had a reasonably wide selection – we could take out one fiction and one... | Hilary Spalding | Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 10 February 1829:
'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian aft... | Walter Scott | The Revd. Dr. R. Henry | History of Great Britain; from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 20 February 1829:
'I glanced over some romances metrical publishd by Hartshorne several of which have not s... | Walter Scott | The Revd. C. H. Hartshorne | Ancient Metrical Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | John J. Cooper | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Latter Day Warnings' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Mary Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Poet at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Professor at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | K. Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Chambered Nautilus, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay: A Logical Story | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While under the tuition of Mr. Smerdon, Gifford had translated the "Tenth Satire" of Juvenal for a holiday task.' | William Gifford | Juvenal | Satire X | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays ... | William Gifford | Voltaire | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand trave... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giovanni Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Violet Wallis read a paper on Carols'. [the paper's contents are summarised] | Violet Wallis | Violet Wallis | [paper on carols] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Violet Wallis read a paper on the Faust legends from the point of view of Medieval History. It was a most interesting... | Violet Wallis | Violet Wallis | [paper on Faust legends] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finish... | Charles Stansfield | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Henry Marriage Wallis | E.V. Lucas | Joints in the Armour | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Charles Evans | Thomas Love Peacock | War Song of Dinas Vawr, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Ernest E. Unwin | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Charles Evans | Thomas Love Peacock | Three Men of Gotham | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | R.B. Graham | Thomas Love Peacock | [poems from the novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Miss Cole | Thomas Love Peacock | Love and Age | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Love Peacock | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first read... | Joseph Conrad | Valéry-Nicolas Larbaud | A.O.Barnabooth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | members of XII Book Club | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached m... | Joseph Conrad | Violet Hunt | The House of Many Mirrors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entire... | St. John Ervine | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax:
"Your book, I thin... | George Catlin | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay':
'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest dau... | Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther) | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751:
'I want to talk to you of Fontanelle's Plays, have you seen... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754:
'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of mora... | Catherine Talbot | David Fordyce | Elements of Moral Philosophy | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | [letter] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Alfred Rawlings | Edward Verrall Lucas | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:
'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however... | Catherine Talbot and family | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | Smoke | Print: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton') |
| 1850-1899 | 'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Nest of Gentlefolks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar... | Elizabeth Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with yo... | Joseph Conrad | E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant Wilson | The Mainland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "... | Vera Brittain | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's corespondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]... | Joseph Conrad | Reginald Perceval Gibbon | article published in "Daily Chronicle" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As ... | Thomas Edwards | Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:]
'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.' | Elizabeth Firth | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A very fair measure of French and some skill in drawing appear to have been the most striking accomplishments which C... | Charlotte Bronte | Voltaire | Henriade | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means". | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | What Buchenwald Really Means | |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ... | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | article in the "Left News" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ... | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | Article in the "Left News" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was laid up directly on arriving here, and this is the explanation of the delay in thanking you for the precious... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | Merchantmen-at-Arms:The British Merchants' Service in the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the charming copy of "The Brassbounder". It is as fresh and attarctive as ever to read and I am still... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | The Brassbounder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever see... | Joseph Conrad | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.' | Joseph Conrad | David John Nicoll | "Commonweal": The Greenwich Mystery | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be ... | Joseph Conrad | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Fa... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I ha... | Joseph Conrad | Violet Hunt | The House of Many Mirrors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm ... | Joseph Conrad | David Morton | ?Old Ships | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Sto... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Edward Verrall Lucas | Mr. Ingleside | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Thomas C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | Booz endormi, from La légende des siècles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Thomas C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | L’Expiation (section on Waterloo) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | E. Dorothy Brain | Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Reginald H. Robson | Victor Hugo | Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | H. B. Lawson | Victor Hugo | Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Charles E. Stansfield | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Renascence and Other Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 31 May 1931 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Mary Pollard | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Alfred Rawlings | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Charles E. Stansfield | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | George Burrow | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved.... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2 June 1931 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 16. X. 31. Ethel C. Stevens in the chair.
1 Minutes of last were read[...]. | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 16 September 1931 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 22 March 1932] | Manuscript: Booklet |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 April 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [an outline of the career of Molière and a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 31 May 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary Pollard | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary E. Robson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Janet Rawlings | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | George Burrow | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gefunden | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Victor Alexander | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue, 20.ix.'32.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 22 June 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 September 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes ... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 October 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, L. P. : 17. ii. 33
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair
1. Minutes of la... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 January 1933] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 17 February 1933] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 March 1933 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Edgar Castle | H. V. Morton | In Search of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 16 Feb 1934] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | XII Book Club | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 March 1934] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 May 1935] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ... | Anthony Eden | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Min... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 June 1935] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | '"I think it was Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables that decided me to do what I could to alleviate the distress and su... | David Lloyd George | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [A paper on Jane Austen’s life and literary style] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 April 1937 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 5 May 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 July 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns u... | Henry William Williamson | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | [article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those not relating to the future of the club) 14 September 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those relating to the future of the club) 14 September 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [A brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [A review of We were Seven, by William Fryer Harvey] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 October 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 27 Nov 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Edgar Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Edgar Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Mignon Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Dorothy Brain | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
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6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Mary Pollard | Ivan Bunin | The Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 Dec 1937 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 Jan 1938 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
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4. Readings from Iri... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 15 Feb 1938 | Manuscript: Notebook |