Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Washington Irving

 

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1900-1945That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was a...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Washington IrvingLife of ColumbusPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...Constance Maynard Washington IrvingOrationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo...Michael Stapleton Washington IrvingRip van WinklePrint: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...Charles Spencer Chaplin Washington Irving[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Washington IrvingThe Sketchbook of Geoffrey CrayonPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful...Thomas Carter Washington IrvingSketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...Fanny Kemble Washington IrvingA Tour on the PrairiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [i...Sydney Smith Washington IrvingAstoriaPrint: Book
1800-1849'...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his ...Eleanor Anne Porden Washington IrvingUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 October 1841: 'I had heard of Lucretia Davidson, in a passing way, & ...Elizabeth Barrett Washington IrvingBiography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller DavidsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - th...Mary Shelley Washington IrvingConquest of Granada, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand ...George Crabbe Washington Irving[Works]Print: Book
1850-1899'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it'John Ruskin Washington IrvingRip Van WinklePrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 8 April 1828: 'Learning from Washington Irving's description of Stratford that the hall of Sir Thomas Lucy...Walter and Anne ScottWashington IrvingSketch BookPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...John Wilson Croker Washington IrvingSketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...John Wilson Croker Washington IrvingSketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...John Wilson Croker Washington Irving'Knickerbocker'Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...John Wilson Croker Washington IrvingThe American DutchmenPrint: Book
1800-1849Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837: 'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro...Scrope Davies Washington Irving'Stout Gentleman'Print: Unknown

 

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