Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ...Margaret Oliphant Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M.T.W.M. Robert BloomfieldThe Farmers BoyUnknown
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward Gibbon WakefieldA letter from Sydney, the principal town of AustraliaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas WhitfieldA Discourse of Liberty of Conscience...Print: Book
1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at...William Wordsworth Henry FieldingPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...Catherine McMullen Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord ChesterfieldLetters of Lord Chesterfield to his SonPrint: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a ...William Masters Sir John FieldingPrint: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26t...John Brooks Sir John FieldingPrint: Handbill
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert BloomfieldFarmer's Boy, TheUnknown
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext...William Wordsworth Robert BloomfieldFarmer's Boy, TheUnknown
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti...William Wordsworth William EnfieldSpeaker, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying...Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: 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 Henry FieldingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha...Robert White Henry FieldingPrint: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...Joseph Keating Henry FieldingPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.'Dorothy Wordsworth Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones...Dorothy Wordsworth Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent John Masefield[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti...Hall Caine Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
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?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel...Leslie Stephen Henry FieldingPrint: Book
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?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fi...Charles Maturin Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: 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 Henry FieldingPrint: Book
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In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What ...Beryl Lee Booker Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h...Frederick Willis Henry FieldingPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...Neville Cardus Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his l...Benjamin Newton Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord ChesterfieldLord Chesterfield's letters to his sonPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be...Harriet Grove Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...Catherine Talbot Sarah Fieldingvarious worksPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence a...Sarah Scott Sarah FieldingDavid SimplePrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F...Elizabeth Carter Sarah Fieldingmany worksPrint: Book
1700-1799'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with i...Samuel Richardson Henry FieldingAmelia (1st vol.)Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provinci...Hilary Spalding E.M. DelafieldProvincial Lady in AmericaPrint: 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 Rachel FieldAll This and Heaven TooPrint: 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 E.M. DelafieldDiary of a Provincial LadyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them...Samuel Richardson Sarah FieldingFamiliar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David SimplePrint: Book
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[Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From ...Priscilla WakefieldMental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla WakefieldPrint: 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 William EnfieldThe SpeakerPrint: Book
1800-1849'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my bi...Thomas Carter Robert Bloomfield[Poems]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 Louis BromfieldMrs ParkinsonPrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...James Lackington Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles James BlomfieldA Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his DiocesePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard ByfieldThe Doctrine of the Sabbath VindicatedPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: Book
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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...Thomas A. Jackson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...Thomas A. Jackson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had...Samuel Pepys Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had...Sir William Penn Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I w...Anne DuffieldunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without wa...E M DelafieldThe Diary of a Provincial LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All...Rachel FieldAll this and Heaven TooPrint: Book
1800-1849?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and wa...Charles Dickens Henry FieldingThe Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the GreatPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug...Arthur Symons Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'We began to read with Mr Jeagle[sic] instead of the modern history of the abbe Milliot "The Modern Europe" made I thi...Wynne sisters and tutor Mr JaegleLord ChesterfieldModern EuropePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it to...Thomas Carlyle Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two...Thomas Carlyle Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at th...Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe history of the adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than ...Thomas Green Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'Thomas Green Robert BloomfieldThe farmer?s boyPrint: Book
1800-1849'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himselfPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himselfPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Mary Godwin John Holroyd, Lord SheffieldMiscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himselfPrint: Book
1850-1899'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'Mary Godwin Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip StanhopePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'Mary Godwin Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip StanhopePrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'Mary Godwin Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip StanhopePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'Mary Shelley Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip StanhopePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da...Mary Shelley Lord ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1900-1945"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing'] Arnold Bennett Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'Percy Bysshe Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect...Sir William Elford Sir H. EnglefieldVerses on WaltzingPrint: 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 Henry FieldingHistory of Tom Jones, a foundling, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldBlissPrint: Book
1900-19457 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night, with [...] the English r...Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield'Bliss'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoo...Vita Sackville-West Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldstoriesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] ...Boen Hawkesford Katherine MansfieldBlissPrint: Book
1800-1849'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who ...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of ChesterfieldManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ...John Buchan Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that...Mr Sharpe Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldThe Letters of Katherine MansfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't car...Florence De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't car...Thomas De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital...Antonia White Field[book on child psychology]Print: Book
1900-1945'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see ...Antonia White Katherine Mansfield[letters]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 Katherine Mansfield[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 Katherine Mansfield[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K...Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry FieldingHistory of Tom Jones, A FoundlingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th...Edward Morgan Forster Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was c...Henry Dundas Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;...Samuel Johnson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;...James Boswell Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra...Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra...James Boswell Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sal...Samuel Johnson Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1700-1799'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'.Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the imm...Samuel Johnson Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' James Boswell Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldMemoirs and Last LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intent...Vera Brittain John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Serial / periodical, magazines
1900-1945'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading ...Edward Brittain John MasefieldThe Loom of YouthUnknown
1600-1699'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, ...Isaac Archer Nicholas ByfieldThe Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godly ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinar...Hester Lynch Thrale Sarah Fielding'To Miss Salusbury'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no ...Robert Southey William EnfieldHistory of Philosophy, From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit...Arnold Bennett Katherine MansfieldThe Samuel JosephsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Kingsley as religious leader]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[Paper on Life of Fitzgerald and Omar's Philosophy]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente...Pattie Stansfield Pattie Stansfield[paper on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read ...Philip Larkin Katherine MansfieldLetters and diaryUnknown
1800-1849Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'.Walter Scott Henry FieldingTom Thumb the GreatUnknown
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Shakespeare]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Goadby then sang a song which was followed by a paper by Mr Stansfield on "The Hasty"'.Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[Paper delivered to XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[Paper on Ruskin's Economics] Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on "Tennyson and his Books"]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[Paper on Charles Lamb]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla...John Ruskin Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on 'The Soul of a People']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Spenser]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Emerson]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on H. G. Wells's 'Mankind in the Making']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deteriorati...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[Paper responding to Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[a paper on Carlyle]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay on Shaw's Life and Works]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...Ernest E. Unwin John MasefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Chaucer's Life and Times]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Cervantes]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Henry Newbolt]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...Reginald Robson Charles Stansfield[essay on Twain]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'.Ernest E. Unwin Pattie Stansfield[letter to the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on H.G. Wells' religious development]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 Charles Stansfield[paper on Goethe's 'Faust']]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Bunyan's writing]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay entitled 'Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...George Burrow John MasefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...George Burrow John Masefield'Everlasting Mercy, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Charles Evans John Masefield'Sea Change'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Charles Evans John Masefield'Cargoes'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Charles Evans John Masefield'Ships'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Howard R. Smith John Masefield'Reynard the Fox'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Henry Marriage Wallis John MasefieldGallipoli
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'Tewkesbury Road'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'Beauty'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'I Went into the Fields'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'Laugh and be Merry'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'By a Bierside'Print: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay on Byron]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the...members of XII Book ClubCharles StansfieldOne Generation & the next or Jobson on False FreedomManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, cl...Jane Austen Henry FieldingPrint: Book
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fieldi...J[?ane] Collier Sarah FieldingThe GovernessPrint: Unknown, In proof
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751: 'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age...Catherine Talbot Fielding[?The] PatriotPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus...Martin Benson Henry FieldingAmelia (volumes 1 and 2)Print: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751: 'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia...Hester Mulso Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'At last we have begun Amelia, it is very entertaining. I do l...Catherine Talbot and family.Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local country...Catherine Talbot and familySarah FieldingLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754: 'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my w...Elizabeth Carter Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much ou...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...Howard R. Smith Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield[letter to his son]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on...Elizabeth Carter Henry FieldingMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:] 'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe Lives of Cleopatra and OctaviaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede...Pattie Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay on gardening]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:] 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete s...Elizabeth Carter Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:] 'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last ...Thomas Edwards Henry FieldingVoyage to LisbonPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes o...

Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[essay on a Swiss holiday]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Celia Burrow John MasefieldBeautyManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Celia Burrow John MasefieldPosted MissingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Henry Marriage Wallis John MasefieldSard HarkerPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Violet Clough John MasefieldMidsummer NightUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Edgar Castle John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Mignon Castle John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Mary Pollard John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Howard Smith John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Sylvanus A. Reynolds John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes o...

Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[a paper on Goethe]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of l...

Mary Pollard Charles E. Stansfield[Safety First]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of l...

Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[an introduction to 'Sumer Is Icumen In']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minute...

Dorothy Brain Charles E. StansfieldCanariesManuscript: Unknown, Notebook
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

  C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of la...

Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[a biographical sketch of Percy Bysshe Shelley with an estimate of his views and character]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes...

Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[A detailed biographical sketch of Æ (AE, or George William Russell)]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read...John Frederick William Dunn John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).'John Frederick William Dunn John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Book

 

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