√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M. | T.W.M. | Robert Bloomfield | The Farmers Boy | Unknown |
| | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Gibbon Wakefield | A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Whitfield | A 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 Fielding | | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a ... | William Masters | Sir John Fielding | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26t... | John Brooks | Sir John Fielding | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | S. 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 Bloomfield | Farmer's Boy, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | S. 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 Bloomfield | Farmer's Boy, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti... | William Wordsworth | William Enfield | Speaker, The | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | 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 | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Henry Fielding | | Print: 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 Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: 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 |
| 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 | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | ?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fi... | Charles Maturin | Henry Fielding | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 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 | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What ... | Beryl Lee Booker | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Henry Fielding | | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. 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 Field | Of the Church | Print: 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 Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | various works | Print: 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 Fielding | David Simple | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | many works | Print: 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 Fielding | Amelia (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. Delafield | Provincial Lady in America | 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 | Rachel Field | All This and Heaven Too | 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 | E.M. Delafield | Diary of a Provincial Lady | Print: 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 Fielding | Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From ... | | Priscilla Wakefield | Mental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield | 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 | William Enfield | The Speaker | Print: 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 Bromfield | Mrs Parkinson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles James Blomfield | A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Byfield | The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Field | Of the Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Field | Of the Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Field | Of the Church | Print: 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 Duffield | unknown | Print: 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 Delafield | The Diary of a Provincial Lady | Print: 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 Field | All this and Heaven Too | Print: 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 Fielding | The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: 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 Jaegle | Lord Chesterfield | Modern Europe | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...' | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great | Print: 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 Fielding | The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: 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 Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...' | Thomas Green | Robert Bloomfield | The farmer?s boy | Print: 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 himself | Print: 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 himself | Print: 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 Sheffield | Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself | Print: 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 Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon' | Mary Shelley | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: 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. Englefield | Verses on Waltzing | 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 | Henry Fielding | History of Tom Jones, a foundling, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922:
'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 7 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 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 Mansfield | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 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 Mansfield | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] ... | Boen Hawkesford | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: 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 Chesterfield | | Manuscript: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 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 Mansfield | The Letters of Katherine Mansfield | Print: 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 Literature | Print: 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 Literature | Print: 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 Fielding | History of Tom Jones, A Foundling | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'. | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Memoirs and Last Letters | Print: 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 Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: 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 Masefield | The Loom of Youth | Unknown |
| 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 Byfield | The Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godly Man | Print: 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 Fielding | | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: 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 Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: 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 Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no ... | Robert Southey | William Enfield | History of Philosophy, From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | Katherine Mansfield | The Samuel Josephs | Print: 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 Mansfield | Letters and diary | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'. | Walter Scott | Henry Fielding | Tom Thumb the Great | Unknown |
| 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 Fielding | Amelia | Print: 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 Masefield | | Print: 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 Masefield | | 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... | 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 Masefield | Gallipoli | |
| 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 Club | Charles Stansfield | One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom | Manuscript: 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 Fielding | | Print: 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 Fielding | The Governess | Print: Unknown, In proof |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751:
'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age... | Catherine Talbot | Fielding | [?The] Patriot | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752:
'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus... | Martin Benson | Henry Fielding | Amelia (volumes 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751:
'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia... | Hester Mulso | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine 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 Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local country... | Catherine Talbot and family | Sarah Fielding | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754:
'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my w... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much ou... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: 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 Fielding | Miscellanies | Print: 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 Fielding | The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia | Print: 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 Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: 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 Fielding | Voyage to Lisbon | Print: 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Celia Burrow | John Masefield | Beauty | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Celia Burrow | John Masefield | Posted Missing | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Sard Harker | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Violet Clough | John Masefield | Midsummer Night | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Edgar Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mignon Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mary Pollard | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Howard Smith | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 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. Stansfield | Canaries | Manuscript: 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 Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).' | John Frederick William Dunn | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |