Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Benjamin Disraeli

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Benjamin DisraeliPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...William Robertson Nicoll Benjamin DisraeliunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899"'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play...A. C. Tait Benjamin DisraeliEndymionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...Helen Crawfurd Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin...Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin...Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (second volume)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin...Fanny Kemble Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after ...Fanny Kemble Benjamin DisraeliContarini FlemingPrint: Book
1850-1899'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newco...Albert Battiscombe Benjamin DisraeliConingsby; or, The new generationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 29th July ?Sybil? ? (Disraeli) [...] I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft f...Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f...Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844: 'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet s...Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliConingsby: or, The New GenerationPrint: Book
1900-194525 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s...Virginia Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [...Robert Browning Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845: 'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'.Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi...Leonard Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. H...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliHenrietta TemplePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. H...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliLothairPrint: Book
1850-1899'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ...John Buckley Castieau Benjamin DisraeliLothairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853: 'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to beco...John Wilson Croker Benjamin Disraeli'Buckinghamshire speeches'Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899
Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croke...Lord Lyndhurst Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly un...Oscar Wilde Benjamin DisraelinovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 11 June 1827: 'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took u...Walter Scott Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of soun...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of soun...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book
1850-189919 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber ?Benjamin ?DisraeliAlroyPrint: Book
1850-18991 November 1879: 'We left Bruges by an early train, the express, joining the steamer at Ostend, and had a beautiful...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin Disraelipamphlet [featuring descriptions of Syria and Cyprus]

 

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