| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings... | Jane Austen | Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.' | Jane Austen | James Boswell | Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 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 | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Re... | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richards... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charle... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Wully Carruthers | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | Tour of the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | [Madame] de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | William Henry Davies | William Henry Davies | 'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | The Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | William Collins Collins | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol]. | John Clare | John Hamilton Reynolds | The Garden of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book. | Margaret 'Peggy' Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa Harlowe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significan... | Mary Groom | William Wordsworth | Song: she dwelt among th' untrodden ways | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the sailor / rogers' | Mary Groom | Samuel Rogers | The Sailor | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'An Italian Song / Rogers' [transcription of poem] | Mary Groom | Samuel Rogers | An Italian Song | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those ... | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Wish' 'Rogers' [transcribes text] 'Mine be a cot beside a hill...' | Mary Dugdale | Samuel Rogers | The Wish | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Verses / Spencer' 'Too late I staid, forgive the crime; /...' [transcript of poem] | Mary Groom | William Robert Spencer | To The Lady Anne Hamilton | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine
| I.G. | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany
| I.G. | Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-Holstein | Germany | Print: Book |
| 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 Disraeli | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] | Albert Battiscombe | Benjamin Thompson | Philosophical Papers: being a collection of memoir | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late. | Gertrude Savile | James Shirley | The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | William Shakespeare | Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King... | Tom Thomas | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reading "Anedotes of Some Remarkable Persons Chiefly of The Present and Two Preceding Centuries' | Joseph Hunter | William Seward | Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly o | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | May heavenly Angels their soft wings display And guide you safe thro' ev'ry dangerous way In every step may you most h... | Sophia | Mary Masters | To Marinda at Parting | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | Zeitschrift fur speculative Physik | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Plays [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James MacPherson | The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Adam Weishaupt | Pythagoras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | Benjamin the Waggoner | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Adam Weishaupt | Ueber Wahrheit und sittliche Vollkommenheit | 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
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Abraham Parsons | Travels in Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise". | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | The Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | True Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De coelo et ejus mirabilibus, et de inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De cultu et amore Dei | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Gaisford | Poetae Minores Graeci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Pepys | Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Regnum animale anatomice, physice et philosophice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] did not read it [Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses] until it was reprinted in the Annual Anthology (179... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Beddoes | Domiciliary Verses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At some point after 1828, W[ordsworth] told Alexander Dyce that he read Bowles's Fourteen Sonnets on publication: "Wh... | William Wordsworth | William Lisle Bowles | Fourteen Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day]. | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my ti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Shelley | The Last Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som... | Molly Vivian | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understo... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Gladstone | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare:
"What pleased me most ... | Joseph Barker | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | James Thomson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and ... | Samuel Westcott Tilke | William Shakespeare | | 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 | William Shakespeare | | 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 | Samuel Pepys | | 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 | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "f... | John Johnson | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | James Boswell | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S... | Thomas Frost | Thomas Second Lord Lyttelton | Letters | 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 | Miguel de Cervantes Savedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Car... | William Wordsworth | William Collins | An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Newspaper |
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1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | William Shakespeare | | 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 | Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading C... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a for... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Oeconomy and Character of the Society of Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second ... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil OEconomy and Character of the Society of Friends. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former groc... | [a grocer] Anon | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | White Doe of Rylstone, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe;... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | White Doe of Rylstone, The | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of the Court of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | Reynolds's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Di... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Di... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | The Tower of London | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three ... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Wiliam Wordsworth | 'The Solitary Reaper' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | group of London thieves | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either as penny numbers or in volume |
| 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 | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | 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 | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 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 | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | 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 | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of William Wordsworh, "Fidelity" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Fidelity | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 Nove... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Star-Gazers | Unknown |
| | Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall,... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Force of Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]':
'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in thi... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Convention of Cintra, The | |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy i... | Sara Hutchinson | William Wordsworth | Introduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, by the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, Rector of East and West Wretham, in the County of Norfolk and Chaplain to the Marquis of Huntly | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | William Hickling Prescott | The Conquest of Mexico | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | William Hickling Prescott | The Conquest of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | William Wordsworth | 'Daffodils' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | 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 | Marcus Aurelius | [Meditations]? | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ... | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo... | George Gregory | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m... | George Gregory | Charles Monroe Sheldon | The Crucifixion of Philip Strong | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu:... | William Wordsworth | Miguel Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'I was resolved not to write until I had read your Husband... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received ... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Rogers | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Writing to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814, Dorothy Wordsworth gives transcription of version of William Wordswor... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Yarrow Visted | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up a... | Tom ?Clarkson | William Wordsworth | ?Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Kn... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815:
'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs ... | Miss Knott | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen -... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | Fairy Queen, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h... | Hannah More | William Wordsworth | extracts from The Excursion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps:
"This 'Court of London' I c... | Abel Heywood | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of the Court of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been twice in prison. I was only in Liverpool two days. I came from Manch... | H.T. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, read as numbers or volume? |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been five times in prison. I have been as the Sanspareil and at all the t... | T.A | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only be... | G.G. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been three times in prison and once discharged. I have been at the Sanspa... | J.M. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I was never in prison before. I have been twice discharged, and am now waiting f... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been nine times in prison and once discharged, and am now waiting trial..... | T.E. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been six times in prison and four times discharged, and am now waiting tria... | M.F. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been twice in prison and am now waiting trial... I have seen 'Jack Sheppard... | A.L. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been six times in prison, and four times discharged... Never saw 'Jack Shep... | J.F. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been four times in prison and twice discharged... I never saw Jack Sheppard... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I have been at the Sanspareil, and at all the other ... | E.B. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I was taken into custody for attempting to rob my ma... | J.H. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I thought this 'Jack Sheppard' was a clever fellow for making his escape and robbi... | J.L. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportuni... | J.H. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describing progress of electioneering in Kendal to Sara Hutchinson, 24 March 1818:
'This morning ... | William Crackenthorp | Thomas Clarkson | letter to Mr Wakefield | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]:
'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther to... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 30 March 1818: 'Mr Clarkson's letter [refusing support to Lowther interest i... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: 'Mr Monkhouse will probably have shewn you the copy of ... | Christopher Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | letter to Revd. John Russell | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2... | Samuel Rogers | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Lonsdale to William Wordsworth, 1 May 1820: 'I have read the Sonnets on the Duddon, and the notes annexed to them... | Lord Lonsdale | William Wordsworth | River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 3 September [1820]: 'How admirable and to me astonishing the ardour and indu... | Thomas Clarkson | Thomas Clarkson | sermon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your le... | William Wordsworth | Helen Maria Williams | The Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in ear... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The | Print: proof |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge]was ... reading ... [Dubartas his Second Weeke] in 1807.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas | Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... ' | Robert Southey | Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas | Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] i... | John Wordsworth | M. G. Lewis | Felon, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora THompson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonpla... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ambrose Philips | Collection of Old Ballads, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont;
"'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Rich... | Robert Southey | Samuel Richardson | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got thr... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Roscoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [h... | Robert Southey | William Roscoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | William Sotheby | I knew a gentle maid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | William Sotheby | I knew a gentle maid | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 18 April 1807, C[oleridge] told Sotheby:
"I read yesterday in a large company, where W. Wordsworth was present, ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Sotheby | Saul, a Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pu... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Wilkinson | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own ha... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Wilkinson | Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect, A | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired ... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Wilkinson | Tours to the British Mountains | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Bird... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Wilkinson | To My Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc. | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'At some time between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied the epitaph of Sir George Vane at the... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Hutchinson | History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositio... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James and Horace Smith | Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publicati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | 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 | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [packet] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Novelle Amorose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Animali Parlante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Margaret de Thomas | epitaph to Edmund Ludlow | Manuscript: tombstone epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Salomon Gessner | The Death of Abel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in '... | John Cole | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webst... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almos... | Harriet Martineau | R.M. Milnes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Stewart Rose | The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read thi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | William Henry Giles Kingston | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | [probably William] Robertson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Marino Sanuto | "Italian history of the Doges of Venice" | 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 | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [speeches] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Samuel Rogers | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Samuel Pepys | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago ... | Margaret Oliphant | Amelia Hutchison Stirling | Monsieur le Comte | Manuscript: Book in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | Graham Travers | Mona Maclean: Medical Student | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Roscoe | The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | The Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | unknown | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Lisle Bowles | various | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding John Cam Hobhouse's offence at his MS Memoirs: "Is there anything in... | friends of Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | | Manuscript: Letter |
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1800-1849 | Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the e... | Grace Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Mary Louisa Molesworth | The Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Ch... | Rose Macaulay | Thomas a Kempis | On The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Ita... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] cultural contacts broadened when he became an apprentice bookbinder in London, discovering the work of ... | Joseph Malaby Dent | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free ex... | H.M. Tomlinson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excit... | H.M. Tomlinson | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he... | Jack Common | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ... | Lennox Kerr | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Sec... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Richard the Second | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coler... | Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Seven Sisters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | To Joanna | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | To Joanna | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Firgrove | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 6 October 1800: 'After tea read The Pedlar.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christa... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Ruth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from pile... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Point Rash Judgement | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Mary Hutchinson | ?James Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.' | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 18 November 1801: 'We sate in the house in the morning reading Spenser.' | Wordsworth Family | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'After tea Wm. read Spenser, now and then a little al... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer a... | Mary Hutchinson | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while h... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, about how she spent Saturday, 23 January 1802: '[after walking in cold] O how c... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Descriptive Sketches | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 6 February, 1802: '... wrote ... after tea, and translated two or thre... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 February, 1802: 'We sate by the fire, and ... read the Pedlar, thinkin... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a li... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 February, 1802: 'We did a little of Lessing. I attempted a fable, bu... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Fable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 February, 1802: '... we read the first part of the poem [ie The Pr... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Recluse | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 22 February, 1802: ' ... Mr. Simpson came in. Wm. began to read Peter B... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 25 February, 1802: 'I reached home [from walk] just before dark ... go... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Essay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'After Tea I worked and read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'We sate by the fire in the evening, and read The Pedlar ... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 12 March 1802: ' ... I read the remainder of Lessing.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 March 1802: 'Mr. Simpson came in just as [William Wordsworth] was fin... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Butterfly (and other poems) | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.' | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 16 March 1802: 'After dinner I read him [William Wordsworth] to sleep. ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'I went and sate with W. and walked backwards and forw... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: '... we sate a while ... [in the orchard]. I left ...... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 18 April 1802: 'I went to drink tea at Luff's ... William met me at Ryda... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Robin and the Butterfly | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to b... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Adam Ferguson | Life of Ferguson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 April 1802: We spent the morning in the orchard -- read the Prothalam... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | Prothalamium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dor... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Lover's Complaint | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 15 May 1802, 'It is now 1/2 past 10 ... A very cold and chearless morn... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 16 June 1802, 'I read the first Canto of the Fairy Queen to William.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning. I... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed m... | Anne Cust | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | The principle of mechanics | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinte... | Anne Lister | William Spence | Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Benjamin Disraeli | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Samuel Johnson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M... | Neville Cardus | J. M. Robertson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the ev... | Anne Lister | James Boswell | The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson | 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 | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Wiliam Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie... | S.P. Oliver | Jas (James) Hastie | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar... | Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar... | Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cab... | Sir Edward Grey | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris "read us out several of his ... | William Morris | William Morris | The Haystack in the Floods (and other poems) | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively ... | Thomas Hardy | William Watson | Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to hi... | William Ewart Gladstone | William Watson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death ... | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa a... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Samuel Richardson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Samuel Richardson | [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 | Matthew Gregory Lewis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ... | John Ruskin | Edmund Spencer | The Faerie Queen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ... | Anna Blunden | Edmund Spencer | The Faerie Queen | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of ... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: 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 Disraeli | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But i... | Katherine Mansfield | E.M. Forster | Howard's End | 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 | Marie Stopes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birt... | Gladys Teal | Marie Stopes | [book on birth control] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli... | Margaret Powell | Marie Stopes | [book on sex] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861)
?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?
| John Ruskin | William Morris | The Defence of Guenevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this ni... | Leslie Stephen | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of ... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession ent... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for t... | Edmund Gosse | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy ... | Leslie Stephen | M.G. Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and e... | Leslie Stephen | William James | The varieties of religious experience | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ... | Leslie Stephen | Edmund Gosse | Life of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ... | Leslie Stephen | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy t... | Leslie Stephen | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Aquinas | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been John... | Leslie Stephen | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | 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 | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provo... | Maria Edgeworth | Germaine De Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William ... | Maria Edgeworth | Sir William Jones | Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from various publications consisting of translations, fugitive pieces | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| | ?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.? | Charles Maturin | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?'
'Otway, Le... | Charles Maturin | Thomas Southern | Complete Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon han... | Maria Edgeworth | William Nicholson | The First Principles of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Miguel de Cervantes | probably Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | Marcus Aurelius | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s... | Charles Robert Maturin | James Sheridan Knowles | Virginius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | William Shakespeare | | 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 | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | 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 | Adam Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large build... | Maria Edgeworth | Maxmillian de Bethune Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | 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 | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I... | Amelia Opie | James Harris | Diaries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | John Maynard Keynes | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? | Amelia Opie | Mme de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that ... | Charlotte Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath... | Charlotte Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath... | Emily Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I w... | Charlotte Bronte | Mrs Smith | Note to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's... | Joseph Croswell | Mr. Erskine | [spiritual autobiography] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's... | Joseph Croswell | Mr. Erskine | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "fo... | | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's School Days | 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 | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Hermann Sudermann | [unknown] | 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 | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'. | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | Monier Williams | work/s on Eastern religions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ... | Octavia Hill | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...' | | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que... | Florence White | Maria Charlesworth | Ministering Children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | William Shakespeare | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | Sir William Jones | Institutes of Menu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Marcus Aurelius | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics of Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei... | James Buchanan | Emanuel Swedenborg | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Morris | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Samuel Smiles | LIfe and Labour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..." | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Shakespeare | History plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State. | Adam Mackie | Thomas Boston | Human Nature in its Fourfold State | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols. It has been said of these letters... The first an... | Ellen Weeton | Philip Dormer Stanhope | Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Phili | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | William Hickling Prescott | [Spanish history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | William Prescott | HIstory of the Conquest of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Peru, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Mexico, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excer... | John Scott | Anne-Louise-Germaine de Stael | Considerations sur les Principaux Evenements de la | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which con... | Charles Dickens | Samuel Johnson | An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage | Print: Book |
| | David Bleich, "Gender Interests in Reading and Language": "I first 'understood' Wordsworth when I heard his poetry rea... | Jonathan Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr... | John Drummond Erskine | Adam Dickson | An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrid... | Robert Sharp | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately la... | Robert Sharp | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called... | 'The Parson' | Thomas Secker | Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.' | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Shuckford | The sacred and profane history of the world | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | " ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, de... | Sir John Suckling | William Shakespeare | The Rape of Lucrece | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | George Eliot | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Stuart Mill | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition ... | Wordsworth Family | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition ... | Wordsworth Family | William Michael Rossetti | Biographical essay on Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale Wh... | William Hale White | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her... | Mary Ann Evans | Mary Finlay Cross | story | Unknown |
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1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | William Dean Howells | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciat... | Frederick Rogers | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 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 | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. ... | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Chalmers | A series of discourses on the Christian recelation | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology' | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gisborne | The Testimony of Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly ... | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gisborne | The Testimony of Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of t... | Alexander Pope | John Wilmot Earl of Rochester | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of b... | John Bedford Leno | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | "I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, ... | John Bedford Leno | William Wordsworth | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Letters of Madame de Sevigne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rabutin de Bussy in his little way, is also delightful...' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy | Les Lettres de Messire Roger de Rabutin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Letters of Madame de Sevigne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been with a nice little party of college friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Samuel Johnson | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses extensive annotations by Hester Lynch Piozzi in 1818 copy of Rasselas in the Houghton Library,... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... T... | Rupert Brooke | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall... | Benjamin Britten | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [religious poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds wi... | Hannah Macaulay | Germaine de Stael | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa... | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co... | William Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | annotations on Shakespeare's sonnets in The Works of the British Poets | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1800-1849 | "In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Es... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as wel... | James Leigh Hunt | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "Fulke Greville's copy of Boswell [Life of Johnson] stands out among individual copies annotated by readers who had kn... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader... | Mr L. | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te... | John Gibson Lockhart | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | "An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His... | anon | Mrs Henry Sandford | Thomas Poole and His Friends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" by Philip Gosse of his grandfather, Edmund Gosse's Life of Philip Henry Gosse... | Philip Gosse | Edmund Gosse | Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S. | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian ass... | Sir Walter Raleigh | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Samuel Rogers | Pleasures of Memory | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand] | John Byrom | William Wollaston | The Religion of Nature Delineated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library' | John Henry Ott | William Shakespereare | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous ... | Granville Sharp | Samuel Estwick | Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called | |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes exception to William Beckford's usual practice of "only occasionally" adding comments to his books... | William Beckford | Samuel Johnson | Diary of a Journey into North Wales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic ... | Horatio Nelson | Helen Maria Williams | Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towrds the Close of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a r... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Sedgwick | Hints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching | 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 | William Shakespeare | [works] | 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 | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy... | anon | Samuel Saunders | A Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Philosophic Botany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | George Steevens | William Oldys | annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691) | |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confes... | | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting w... | | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Thomas Malthus | Essay on Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She ... | Frances Burney | Marie de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Life of Waller | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read much Shakespeare.' | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the... | Anna Larpent | William Mason | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evening until one was [frittered?] away in reading the 'Monk' for the fourth time at least.... In the second volu... | William Upcott | Matthew G. Lewis | The Monk | 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 | Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) | | 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 | Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with ... | Anna Larpent | James Thomson | Edward and Elinora | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose discip... | John Masefield | Wiliam Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well ... | Anna Larpent | James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Galliciae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Edward Morgan Forster | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manne... | Anna Larpent | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Wordsworth | Prelude, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | Emily Dickinson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Moll Neville | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | Thomas Sorocold | Supplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... Wherein are three most excellent prayers made by Queene Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki... | Gwen Raverat | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on... | Gwen Raverat | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Roth... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memories | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1800-1849 | 'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work... | Thomas Carlyle | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of suff... | Anna Larpent | William Smellie | Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a les... | Anna Seward | Thomas Gisborne | [conduct books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Cl... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.' | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature ... | Maria Josepha Holroyd | Germaine de Stael | Delphine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus... | | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Ha... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Chil... | Abraham Cowley | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read "The Merry Wives of Windsor" wherein I think the genius of the author shows itself in a very conspicuous manner ... | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it mu... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she fin... | Elizabeth Carter | Helen Maria Williams | various books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Ta... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank ve... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading o... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.' | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed corresp... | Charles Babbage | Abraham Sharp | shorthand writings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This day completed the reading of Sherlock on death and which I esteem a very plain, good book, proper for every Chri... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | William Shakespeare | [Histories] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sh... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I ver... | Henrietta Darwin | Edward Morgan Forster | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".' | Thomas Turner | Thomas Salmon | A critical essay concerning marriage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appea... | Thomas Turner | Thomas Salmon | A critical essay concerning marriage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had critici... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | biographies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm... | Henry James | William James | Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, in letter begun 10 March 1869 (continued on 12 March), on evening spent at home of William... | William Morris | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I ha... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Manuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Heylin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Mrs Heylin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Miss Cheyne | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Freke | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Edward Young | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Susanna Highmore | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Samuel Richardson | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proport... | John Drummond Erskine | James Steuart | An inquiry into the principles of political oeconomy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even and the day read 6 of Bishop Sherlock's sermons, which I think extremely good, there being sound reasonin... | Thomas Turner | Thomas Sherlock | Sermons on various subjects, moral and theological, now first published | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy agai... | Thomas Turner | Edmund Gibson | The evil and danger of lukewarmness in religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy agai... | Thomas Turner | Edmund Gibson | Trust in God the best remedy against fears of all kinds | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article." | Henry James | William Dean Howells | "A Pedestrian Tour" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though bu... | Henry James | William James | Review of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent... | Frances Anne Kemble | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Midd... | Henry James | William James | "criticism of Middlemarch" | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ... | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | As you like it | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ... | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | The taming of the shrew | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the fatigue of the day was over, I read part of Shakespeare's "Works".' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Shakespeare's "Works", which I think extreme good in their kind.' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance (fifth part) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): "I ... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | review of Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | 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 | Hammond Innes | Attack Alarm | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next le... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | 'Considerations on the French Revolution' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | Considerations Sur La Revolution Francaise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life,... | Samuel Richardson | Thomas Edwards | [letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have nothing to say in favour or disfavour of the Shakespeare illustrated. Some pieces are not calculated for more ... | Samuel Richardson | William Shakespeare | [illustrated, edited version] | 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... | Samuel Richardson | William Mason | Elfrida | 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 | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de Sevigne | Letters | 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 | William Shakespeare | Henry the Fifth | 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 | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "Tom's Brown's Schooldays", which is awfully nice.' | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | 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 | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | 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 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Cross Creek | 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 | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | 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 | Norman Collins | Anna | 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 | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | 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 | William Shakespeare | Pericles | 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 | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Measure for measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | Lucy Gray | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | We are seven | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Daffodils | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Minister's Charge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 't... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, jus... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Life of Congreve | 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 | William Mason | [items in Dodsley's Miscellanies] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of... | Rosamond Lehmann | May Sinclair | Life and Death of Harriet Frean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar ... | John Drummond Erskine | William Jones | Grammar of the Persian Language, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.'
| Arnold Bennett | James Douglas | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's Letters on Education, Louis Sebastie... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Madame de Genlis | Letters on Education | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshnes... | Henry James | William James | Principles of Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinati... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary Hays | Cursory Remarks | Manuscript: Unknown, MS version of pamphlet |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Preface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. ... | Mrs Robinson | Mary Hays | Memoirs of Emma Courtney | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.' | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Armstrong | Crowthers of Bankdam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there ... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I revised "Pericles" [for Elocution exam] and wrote notes on it. It's a horrid play, completely unlikely but quite f... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Plac... | Hilary Spalding | Naomi Michison | Conquered, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Laocoon'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Nathan der Weise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "The Sun is My Undoing" - fast and very meaty. Intensely interesting - till 12 pm'. | Hilary Spalding | Marguerite Steen | Sun is my Undoing, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine s... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Minna von Barnhelm | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.' | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to ... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's a... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | "paper on Pater" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th... | | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came aw... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Richard III'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'. | [M.] Dessoir | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Sp... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare (and others) | The Passionate Pilgrim | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Macbeth".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Romeo and Juliet"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight point... | John Drummond Erskine | William Jones | Poeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3 | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | James Boswell | probably Life of Johnson | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article on "Brute and Human Intellect" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my l... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Lady of the Aroostook | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the su... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered,... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the ... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | Dr. Breen's Practice | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late fo... | Henry James | William James | letter to Henry James Sr | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet... | Samuel Bamford | William Shakespeare | [works] | 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 | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | James Macpherson | Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex.... | Francis Wemyss | Mostyn John Armstrong | Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | G.W.M. Reynolds | Reynolds's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of... | William Edwin Adams | William Shakespeare | [plays] | 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 | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wante... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Seasons, The | 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 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Emanuel Swedenborg | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have now taken up Quatrefages again.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau | [zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a... | Thomas Carter | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.' | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which... | Henry James | Maurice Barres | Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-Frond | Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrides... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [extracts in school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [works not reproduced in schoolbooks] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Ma... | Henry James | Matilda Serao | [unidentified novel] | 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Ragged Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Their Silver Wedding Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | 'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story) | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short ta... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Pair of Patient Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's School Days | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ, The (?) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three wee... | Henry James | William James | [Unidentified recently published writings] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | journal articles on psychology | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinbu... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | life of Swinburne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for yo... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Portraits and Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Liberty, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the ... | Thomas Carter | William Giles | Guide to Domestic Happiness, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and swee... | Thomas Carter | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
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 | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of the Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaini... | Thomas Carter | J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi | Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through ... | Thomas Carter | James Arminius | [works on theology and account of his life] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ... | Thomas Carter | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I hav... | Henry James | Margot Asquith | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquit... | Margot Asquith | Margot Asquith | Diaries | Manuscript: Codex |
| 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 | 'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experienc... | | Margaret Phillips | Within the City Wall | 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 |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Ch... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Samuel Pepys | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376... | Magdalene Erskine | Mariano Vasi | Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest... | | Mariano Vasi | Itineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou description generale ? de cette ville celebre et de ses environs, antiquaire Romain | 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 | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to... | John Marsh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Highland Girl | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Solitary Reaper | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ... | John Marsh | James Ferguson | His Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after ... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on ... | Edward Trelawny | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | Elizabeth Marsh | William Jackson | Thirty letters on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent... | John Marsh | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our f... | John Marsh | Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albani | 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 | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | 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 | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | 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 | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | 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 | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | 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 | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | 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 | Margery Sharp | Cluny Brown | 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 | Margery Sharp | Four Gardens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed ... | Christopher Thomson | Thomas Skinner | Splendid misery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | [Samuel?] Johnson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Smiles | [biographies of men] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journals of Mary Shelley
"We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction" | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary, a fiction | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened... | James Glass Bertram | Mrs Johnstone | The Schoolmaster | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Savonarola's Sermons' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermons] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Discourse on Government | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on the Epistle of John] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.' | George Eliot | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | De Veritate Profetica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | 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 | William Shakespeare | | 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 | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Cather... | Charlotte Mew | May Sinclair | The Combined Maze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Plays including Richard III and King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary, a fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We read Shakespeare'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'. | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | The excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a poem | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Poetes Latins de la Decadence | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Processi | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Wetmore Story | Roba di Roma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Prescott again and made notes' | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] William Prescott | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [possibly] William Blackstone | [Commentaries on the laws of England?] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, "The American Forest-Girl": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedg... | Felicia Hemans | Catherine Maria Sedgwick | Hope Leslie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'I have been reading a most delightful French romance, by M... | Felicia Browne | Stephanie Felicite de Crest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Le Siege de la Rochelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of Germa... | Felicia Hemans | Germaine de Stael | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | The white doe of Rylstone | 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 | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote (probably) | 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 | Samuel Richardson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, h... | Frances Burney | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but i... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | 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 | Thomas Sherlock | Sermons | 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 | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Laodamia | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lines. Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, 13th July 1798 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | sonnets | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'She [Felicia Hemans, nee Browne] was early a reader of Shakespeare;... | Felicia Browne | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year disc... | Lady Caroline Lamb (nee Ponsonby) | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not thin... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sometimes I try if I can talk in that Jargon I us'd to hear but I cannot endure it & the remembrance of what you said... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Rogers | unknown | Unknown |
| 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 | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather t... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Mathew (Monk) Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Excursion & Madoc.' | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Unknown |
| | 'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workho... | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a child, recollections from an old potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Henry Prescott | History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Marcus Aurelius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Co... | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Dickson | Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamle... | Sarah Siddons | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers'... | Mary Berry | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 12 January 1799: 'Somerville's "Anne" is, I think, more dry than his "William," but clear... | Mary Berry | Thomas Somerville | History of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen Anne; with a Dissertation concerning the Danger of the Protestant Succession | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am r... | Mary Berry | Thomas Belsham | A Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 19 February 1799: 'Mr. Sotheby sent me his "Battle of the Nile." [...] There seems to be ... | Mary Berry | William Sotheby | "The Battle of the Nile" | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though b... | Mary Berry | Mary Wollstonecraft | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: ... | G., Dowager Lady Spencer | William Mason | Poems (third volume) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 5 October 1799: 'Mentioning [...] [Madame de Coigny] puts me in mind of a book which I am... | Mary Berry | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Smith Surtees | [probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Thomas Nashe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | William Butler Yeats | [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 | Percy Wyndham Lewis | [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 | George Norman Douglas | South Wind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the wrongs of woman.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Posthumous works.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the rights of woman | 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 | William Robertson | Histories | 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 | William Sewell | The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Foster | Textbook of Physiology | 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 | Mark Akenside | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly thr... | Mary Berry | Germaine De Stael | Delphine (three volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Mad... | Mary Berry | Madame De Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."' | Mary Berry | William Spence | England Independent of Commerce | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 21 April 1808: 'In the evening began reading Ashe's "Travels in America", in the north-western se... | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 22 April 1808: 'In the evening Ashe's Travels [in America] again. They are, I think, very entert... | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the lette... | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1808: 'In the evening Mrs. D[?amer], and [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].' | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 1 May 1808: 'In the evening, [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America] as usual.' | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 6 May 1808: 'Mrs D[?amer] and I finished [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].' | Mary Berry and [?Anne Damer] | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Monier Williams' | George Eliot [pseud] | Monier Monier Williams | [presumably work on Sanskrit] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Malthus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederic William Henry Myers | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "C... | Harriet Martineau | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'you must see Esdaile's book. If there are any sane persons who still doubt "the truth of Mesmerism", that book must c... | Harriet Martineau | James Esdaile | Mesmerism in India and its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read [Mr Lucas's book]? "Secularia; Surveys on the Main Stream of History"... It altogeth... | Harriet Martineau | Samuel Lucas | Secularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Mark Akenside | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole p... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guests | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole pa... | | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | William Harrison Ainsworth | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary, A Fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'. | Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We walk out - when we return Shelley talks with Jane and I read Wrongs of woman'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua... | Sir Uvedale Price | Germaine de Stael | L'Allemagne (vol.3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua... | | Germaine de Stael | L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua... | Sir Uvedale Price | Germaine de Stael | L'Allemagne (vols 1-3) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read "Othello," the two parts of Iago an... | Sarah Siddons | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 28 August 1823: 'Loitered in the garden with Car. [Hon. Mrs Scott, novelist], and read the MS. wh... | Mary Berry | Hon Mrs C. Scott | MS | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Elements of Morality, for the use of children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'. | Mary Godwin | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to 'Mrs Somerville', from Bellevue, September 1834: 'I have just finished reading your book [apparently on ... | Mary Berry | Mrs Somerville | [work on astronomy] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close assoc... | Gabriel Harvey | Audomarus Talaeus | Academia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567... | Gabriel Harvey | Thomas Wilson | The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence | 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 | Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Annals of my village" - the month.' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston]. | John Cole | James [?] Edmeston | The penny magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shaksper... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Fairie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | William Sherlock | Meditations and A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his e... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixotte | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'We have read Mr Gisborne's book aloud ["On the duties of Man"] and all the pa... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Gisbourne | An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My [Harriet Martineau's] pleasure in [R. Monckton Milnes's poems] was greatest when I read them in my Tynemouth solit... | Harriet Martineau | R. Monckton Milnes | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read t... | Mrs Marsh | Mrs Marsh | The Admiral's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs. Marsh asked me what I thought of getting her tales published. I offered to try if, on reading the manuscript at... | Harriet Martineau | Mrs Marsh | Two Old Men's Tales (including The Admiral's Daughter) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Secker | Lectures on Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When "Currer" [Charlotte Bronte] and I [Harriet Martineau] came home, there were proof-sheets [of Martineau's corresp... | Harriet Martineau | Mr Atkinson | Letter on "distribution of the brain" | Print: In proof |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how com... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read over Rosewell's "Life 7 Tryal" 8vo 17[18]'. | Anthony Hammond | Samuel Rosewell | The Arraignment and Tryal of T. Rosewell, for High Treason | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 |
'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books sh... | Hannah Mitchell | Emmeline Pankhurst | My Own Story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two m... | Harriet Martineau | James Edward Austen-Leigh | A Memoir of Jane Austen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Beresford | [On vaccination] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream... | Edmund Gosse | James Hyslop | The Cameronian's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour
Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I did not move from my chair but reached for a book. Picked up a Shakespeare and
read the closing scene, "Othello".' | | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]:
'If guardian Powers preside above
Who still extend to virtu... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Robert Spencer | Urania | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | William Wordsworth | [The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | ' I am disappointed that it is not raining, but bethought myself that it might rain at the time of the procession. I w... | | Emile Burns | Handbook of Marxism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I gave her E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". She- "I'm not sure, but I believe I've read it. I don't really remem... | | E. M. Forster | A Passage to India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female,... | Joseph Banks | Peter Simon Pallas | Miscellanea Zoologia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... he [ie George III] paid attention when books were read to him, and asked for excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Jo... | King George III | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Carrots | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 |
'Laura, who by this time was reading "Old St Paul's" at home, simply romped through this Little-Go' | Laura Thompson | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wid... | Flora Thompson | Maria Charlesworth | Ministering Children | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Thomas Jonathan Jackson | [Military History] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dimitri Merejkowski | The Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da Vinci | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dom Lorenzo Scupoli | The Spiritual Combat | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter... | Jane Austen | Madame de Genlis | les Veillees du Chateau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was s... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read ... | Jane Austen | Thomas Gisborne | An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies... | Austen family | Madame de Genlis | Alphonsine, or Maternal Affection | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear ... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & l... | Austen Family | Mrs S. Sykes | Margiana, or Widdrington Tower | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Nicholson | A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungun uber das Daseyn Got | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Prodomus Philosophiae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hugh James Rose | Prolusio in Curia Cantabrigiensi recitata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Charles Wells | Two essays: one upon single vision with two eyes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Foster | The Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Christian Revelation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Mariana Starke | Travels on the continent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | The Nature of the Intercourse between the Soul and the body | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Thomson | A System of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Philosophische Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Jefferson | Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers | 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 |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Sedgwick | Hints to the Public and the Legislature on the nature and effect of evangelical preaching | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Sedgwick | Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Dramatic Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Dramatic Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, | 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 | August Wilhelm Schlegel | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | August Wilhelm Schlegel | Ueber dramatische Kunst und Litteratur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Abraham Hillhouse | Hadad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
mainly 1804-1811; a few notes added up to 1818-1819, one note is as late as 1826 or later | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | M Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens | Kabbalistische Briefe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Collins | Poetical Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Lisle Bowles | Sonnets, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Johnson | The Works of the Late Reverend Mr Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Leben, nebst seinem noch ubrigen litterarischen Nachlasse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessings samm Hiche Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judenthum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Steele | Mr Recorder's Speech to the Lord Protector | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Stanley | The History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Sherlock | A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | Jahrbucher der Medicin als Wissenschaft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | An Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the importation of foreign corn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel O'Sullivan | The Agency of Divine Providence Manifested in the | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir William Stewart | Outlines of a Plan for the General Reform of the British Land Forces | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger | Philosophische Gesprache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Swinburne | A Letter to the Right Honourable Robert Peel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought from the library for Miss Haynes the 4 [th] vol. of Mrs Godwin's Posthumous Works. It contains Letters, one o... | Joseph Hunter | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumos Works, Vol IV: Letters and Miscellaneous | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took "Letters from Norway & c" back to the Vestry Library. I did not read them, but Mr E. said they were very enterta... | Joseph Evans | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Wollstoncraft's "View of the French Revolution" Vol I. It appears to rather a panegyric upon the actions of ... | Joseph Hunter | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began to read Thomson's "Seasons".' | Joseph Hunter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is ... | Joseph Hunter | Helen Maria Williams | A Tour in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Williams "Tour" is very entertaining; besides describing the scenery (which she does in a masterly manner) she g... | Joseph Hunter | Helen Maria Williams | A Tour in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-du... | | Samuel Rogers | 'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-du... | Charlotte Sussannah Fry | Samuel Rogers | 'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Epistle to a Friend". I do not so much admire it as I did the "Pleasures of Memory".' | Joseph Hunter | Samuel Rogers | An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I ha... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas Mathias | A Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, French and Italian in the Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the co... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who wi... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of memory"; thought less of the pap... | William Windham | Samuel Rogers | Pleasures of Memory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more tal... | William Windham | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On WM Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey Whilst Butler needy wretch! was yet alive, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Wesley ('the Younger') | On the Setting up of Mr Butler's Monument | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines - To him that will understand them' 'Thou art no more my bosom's Friend;/...' 'Mrs Robinson' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Mary Robinson | Lines To Him Who Will Understand Them | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Tear' 'Oh! That the chemist's magic art/ Could crystalise [sic] this sacred treasure/... ['Chloe' of Rogers's text... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Rogers | On A Tear | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Poetry Composed by Llewelyn on the Death of his Greyhound' 'The Spearman [spearmen in original] heard the bugle sound... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Robert Spencer | Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest Thy meek submission to they God express'd/..."' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Rogers | The Pleasures of Memory Part II | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest, Thy meek submission to thy God express'd/..."' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Rogers | The Pleasures of Memory Part II | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson' | Beanlands group | James Thomson | The Castle of Otranto OR To Fortune | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Isle of Wight by Anne Maria Sargeant A light so varied bursts upon my view, ...' | Bowly group | Anne Maria Sargent | The Isle of Wight | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To His Majesty's Ship Barham, appointed by the King to convey Sir Walter Scott to Naples. By William Sotheby Esq.' | Bowly group | William Sotheby | To His Majesty's Ship Barham | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes,... | Charles Lamb | William Shakespeare | The Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volumes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"' | John Clare | Samuel Johnson | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there' | John Clare | James Beresford | The Miseries of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read y... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an o... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Henry The Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute d... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons (Winter) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for incl... | John Clare | Thomas Tusser | Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'It was the explanation, the perfectly prosaic and positive explanation, of all these wonders which drew them to study... | Philip and Emily Gosse | Matthew Habershon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about th... | Edmund Gosse | Michael Scott | Tom Cringle's Log | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following after... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two very long quotations:
1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr... | Frances Hamilton | M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu | Spirit of Laws | 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 |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Wordsworth | [poems extracts] | 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 | '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 | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | 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 | William Shakespeare | [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 | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'This preoccupation with the sensuous form I experienced most obviously and acutely when I read with mounting exciteme... | Thomas A. Jackson | Edmund Spenser | Faery Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and t... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Sir Charles William Pasley | Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Jane Austen | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Mrs Digweed | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Papillon Family | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Eleanor Papillon | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: 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 Disraeli | Coningsby; or, The new generation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Cae... | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | The Story of the Unknown Church | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -' | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -' | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madeleine de Scuderi | Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".' | Samuel Pepys | Emanuel Tesauro | Patriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traducta | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him read... | Sir William Coventry | Thomas Cross | Sternhold and Hopkins Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read November in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Hobbes | Of libertie and necessitie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.' | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha... | Anna Lefroy | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward is writing a Novel - we have all heard what he has written - it is extremely clever; written with great ease &... | Jane Austen | James Edward Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of... | Samuel Pepys | Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas | Divine weekes and workes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of... | Elizabeth Pepys | Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas | Divine weekes and workes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 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... | | Ruby M Ayres | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great ple... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Sea Manuscript] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed.... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | All's Well that Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Naomi Jacobs | [early works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read one book since the war "A Yank At Oxford". I liked that.....' | | John Monk Saunders | A Yank at Oxford | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discou... | Samuel Pepys | James Ussher | A body of divinitie | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a... | Samuel Pepys | [Thomas] [Southland] | Love a la mode | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscov... | Samuel Pepys | Adam Olearius | The voyages and travels of the ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among other... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Love a Cheate | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands.... | Thomas Okey | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [Thomas Peckett] [Prest] | Sweeney Todd the Barber | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Pr... | Charles Dickens | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam,
I have read the paper you were kind enough to forward to me, and very much regret that I cannot avail myself ... | Charles Dickens | Miss Reynolds | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Dear Sir,
As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my... | Charles Dickens | Thomas Gaspey | The Grand Juror | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we ha... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [contract] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted' | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [contract] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted' | Mr Andrews | Samuel Pepys | [contract] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterl... | Arthur Symons | William Dean Howells | A Modern Instance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations [?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.' | Agathe Wynne | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | L'amour maternelle | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the be... | Agathe Wynne | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | Zelie | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening we read "Olympe and Theophile" (by Mde. de G.) We all cried so much there was not one of us that was cap... | the Wynne family and friends, including Betsey, Eugenia and several women | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | Olympe et Theophile | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I thin... | Dorothy Osborne | Marguerite de Valois | Memoires de la Reyne Marguerite | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer P... | Dorothy Osborne | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle | (?) Poems and Fancies | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read... | Dorothy Osborne | Madeleine de Scudery | Artamene; ou, Le Grand Cyrus | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former.
I can?t boast that I discovered what purpo... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Le Jardin de Berenice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper' | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Jesus Christ | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 14th March,
Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 29th March,
A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Holmes | The Tragedy of Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 5th April,
I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | As you Like it | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 6th July.
?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair).
Back to the office today and find that young Reid has ... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | Mr Waddington of Wyck | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 10th July
?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.
| Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 29th July
?Sybil? ? (Disraeli)
[...]
I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I played the harpsichord most part of the evening. Then we began to read a play of Mr de Salis (made by him) entitled... | Elizabeth Wynne and others | [Mr] de Salis | L'Ecole aux Maris Malhonnetes | Print: Unknown |
| 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 Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | Thomas Pearson | Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 6th November.
?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair).
Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Moth... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | The Tree of Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6th November.
?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is ve... | Gerald Moore | J. Maynard Keynes | The End of Laissez Faire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 27th December.
?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'.
| Gerald Moore | Mary Johnston | By Order of the Company | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '28th September 1928 (Friday).
I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France... | Gerald Moore | Thomas Vladesco | [article on Henrik Ibsen] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Ibrahim Pasha | Turkish Verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally ver... | Jane Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Robertson | History of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Shakespeare | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on a stay at her aunt Mrs Hanbury's London house during late 1835:
'The house and the situat... | Elizabeth Sewell | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | The Countess and Gertrude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mrs. Mary Sherwood | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings:
'After my father's death, the only reading, ... | Jane Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her family's encouragement of her writing:
'William [Sewell's brother] had arranged to... | William Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on support received in the face of criticisms of her novel
[italics]Margaret Percival[end i... | Samuel Rickards | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | 'little history of the early Church' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | The Earl's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton Parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] ma... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | James Thomson | [a tragedy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening I heard a lecture of a work made by Mr de Bressac which is the description of all the murders and horror... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [Mr] de Bressac | [account of French Rebellion] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b... | Eugenia Wynne | William Robertson | The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Mr Sandys | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, t... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas [?] Hughes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on the model for the domineering husband Colonel Forbes, in her novel [italics]Katherine Asht... | | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Katherine Ashton | 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 | 'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf a... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Tha... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ... | John Mitchel | Mary Schweidler | The Amber Witch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".' | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter to Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end itali... | J. J. Lias | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton Parsonage | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter to Eleanor L. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], wr... | Elizabeth Wordsworth | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Preparation for the Holy Communion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | Eleanor L. Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters' | Harriet Wynne | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'. | Harriet Wynne | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | `My dear Watson:
Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Od... | Thomas Hardy | William Watson | Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII | Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Forbes-Mitchell | Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a ve... | Eugenia Wynne | Thomas Skinner Surr | A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".' | Thomas Fremantle | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".' | Thomas Fremantle | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -wh... | Thomas Carlyle | William Shakespeare | [Works] | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | James Beresford | Miseries of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Mark Akenside | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Simpson | A Treatise of Fluxions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas or William Belsham | [either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essays in Philosophical Morality] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with Modern Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | [article on paperism in Edinburgh Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel ... | Thomas Carlyle | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | The Unequal Yoke | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | Chubby, A Nuisance, A Study of Child-life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I d... | Sydney Smith | Robert James Mackintosh | Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court... | Sydney Smith | William, Baron Stowell Scott | [reports of cases in the Admiralty Court] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombard... | Sydney Smith | Mountstuart Elphinstone | History of India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medi... | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....' | Thomas Green | Thomas Sheridan | Life of Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Charles V. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...' | Thomas Green | Adam Smith | Essays on philosophical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...' | Thomas Green | Thomas James Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...' | Thomas Green | William Wollaston | Religion of Nature delineated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but w... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but wa... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...' | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...' | Thomas Green | William Russell | The History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, ... | Thomas Green | Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan | The History of Nourjahad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...' | Thomas Green | Philip Dormer Stanhope | Characters of eminent personages of his own time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical dec... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Natio... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | A discourse on the study of the law of nature, and nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...' | Thomas Green | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vign | Lettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de Main | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J.... | Thomas Green | James Ussher | An introduction to the theory of the human mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, an... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Gallicae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been ... | Thomas Green | Soame Jenyns | A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the wh... | Thomas Green | William Richardson | A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's characters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement o... | Thomas Green | William Jackson of Exeter | The four ages; together with essays on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she... | Sydney Smith | Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de Staal | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr... | Sydney Smith | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...' | Thomas Green | Soame Jenyns | The works of Soame Jenyns, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Thomson | The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on paestum are sai... | Lord and Lady Holland | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are sai... | John Nicholas Fazackerly | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are sai... | | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are som... | Sydney Smith | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | James McIntosh | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | William Pitt Scargill [anon.] | Elizabeth Evanshaw | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Bu... | Sydney Smith | Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary | The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'. | Mary Godwin | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Emilia Galotti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads a... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read view of the French Revolution'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revo... | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Tales of the castle' | Mary Godwin | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St aubin, Marquise de Silley, Comtesse de Genlis | Les Veilles du Chateau | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Corinne (42)'. | Mary Godwin | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | Corinne, ou d'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne' | Mary Godwin | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | Corinne, ou d'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy]. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Benjamin Disraeil | Alroy: a Romance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most imperso... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone | [article] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfec... | Arnold Bennett | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | Coventry | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | article on Sir John Gorst | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it ... | Arnold Bennett | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Lett... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shakespeare | various | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Anne Louise Germaine de (Madame de) Stael | De la Litterature consideree dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales | 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... | Mary Godwin | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'. | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'. | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'. | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)' | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Quene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh... | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Quene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto ... | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given se... | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written During a Short Residence in Norway, Sweden and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given se... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary: a Fiction | 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 | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | De l'Allemagne | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | William Robertson | History of America | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Matthew Lewis | Tales of Terror | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | [Plays] | 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 | James MacPherson | The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language by James MacPherson | 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 | Thomas, First Baron Erskine | [Collection of Speeches, perhaps Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press, and Against Constructive Treason] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'. | Mary Godwin | Mme de Genlis | Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'. | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. D... | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric... | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'. | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except w... | | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Thomson | The seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, durin... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, a... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [Elegy 15] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - ... | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | [possibly one of] Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my wi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Cla... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on pape... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Address to simplicity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Mary Wollstonecroft | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Helen Maria Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Macpherson | The poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Les Voeux t?m?raires; ou l'enthousiasme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Robinson | Vancenza; or the Dangers of Credulity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VI of Clarissa'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, could have been original periodicals or later collected volumes |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Alphonsine; ou la tendresse maternelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de Chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Margaret Steen | Matador | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set for... | anon | William Wordsworth | The Excursion (excerpts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William?] Jones | Commentarii | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison] | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des... | Samuel Pepys | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy | L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proce... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Declaration of the proceedings of the victualling action | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play;... | Samuel Pepys | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in c... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [manuscript on naval expenses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Samuel] Johnson | Lives [of the most eminent English poets] | 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 w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [James] Boswell | Life of [Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Mary Godwin | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix' | Mary Godwin | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read rights of women' | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero' | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son' | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 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 | 'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester' | Mary Shelley | James Shirley | Gamester, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Genlis | Les Chevaliers du cygne; ou la cour de Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'C... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Frederick William Robinson | Christie's Faith | 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 | [William] [Mason] | Caractacus | 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 | [Thomas] Jefferson | Virginia [Notes on state of] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alph... | Samuel Pepys | [Samuel and John] Pepys | [Catalogue of his books] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he rea... | John Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Catalogue of books] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Restoration' | Mary Shelley | George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers | The Restoration; or Right will take place | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Rehearsal' | Mary Shelley | George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcass... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Sir William Batten | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Sir William Penn | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Sir John Minnes | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duk... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her' | Samuel Pepys | Madeleine de Scuderi | Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Wordsworths Poems aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | MacBeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | Manuscript: Unknown, Mary Shelley's MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | M.G. Lewis | Anaconda, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finish miseries of human life' | Mary Shelley | James Beresford | Miseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mathilde et Eugenie' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Souza | Eug?nie et Mathilde, ou les m?moires de la famille du Comte de Revel | 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 | Benjamin Thompson [trans.] | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre' | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson (trans.) | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.'
| Arnold Bennett | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read th... | Arnold Bennett | El?mir Bourges | La Nef | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Hamlet' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads aloud 6 eclogues from the Shepherds Calender[sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.' | Arnold Bennett | Edmund Rostand | unknown | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, wh... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [letter to Sir Robert Brookes] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how pe... | Samuel Pepys | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Memorandums and Conclusions of the Navy Board | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there got Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's observations in his voyage into England; and then to bed.' | Balthasar St Michael | Samuel de Sorbiere | voyage into England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as... | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Report] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Report] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the ... | Sir William Coventry | Samuel Pepys | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so m... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [paper on naval business] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so m... | Matthew Wren | Samuel Pepys | [paper on naval business] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, ... | Deborah Willet | Samuel Pepys | [note] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [letter with corrections by Matthew Wren] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand n... | | Clement Edmonds | 'Life' prefaced to 'The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, m... | Tom Edwards | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.' | Tom Edwards | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory ... | William Hewer | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there, by and by being called in, Mr Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of Yor... | | Samuel Pepys | [defence of the existing constitution of the Navy Board] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s ... | Arnold Bennett | William Dean Howells | 'Easy Chair' column | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas... | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away
[from dirty hotel at vil... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read
King Richard III. & K... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read
King Richard III. & King Lea... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us
the Ancient Mariner [...... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes'. | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one
reading the Monk.'
| Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley
reads Thalaba aloud in... | Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Tales of Wonder | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. &
Mad [...] Mother.'
... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | 'The Mad Mother' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner
[Shelley] reads p... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at
four.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft
Godwin] dines at one & goes... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.' | Claire Clairmont | Mademoiselle de Montpensier | Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de M. Gaston d'Orleans, frere de Louis XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Escul... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 20th. [...] Work all day. S. reads Henry 4th to us.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact... | Claire Clairmont | [probably] August Wilhelm von Schlegel | [probably] A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's
Treatise concerning t... | Claire Clairmont | Adam Smith | Treatise on the Imitative Arts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.'
[records of reading this text also appear in entries for ... | Claire Clairmont | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 29th. [...] Read Rights of Woman.'
[records of readings from this text also appear in entries for 31 Ma... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] June 1st. [...] Read Letters from Norway.
[...]
'Friday June 2nd. [...] Read Rights of Woman & ... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della
rivoluzione di Napoli... | Claire Clairmont | William Nicholson | An Introduction to Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Richard III in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Fowre Hymnes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Epithalamion | 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 | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'
[further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, ... | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.'
| Claire Clairmont | James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of Castlehaven | The Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven, His Engagements and Carriage in the Wars of Ireland, from the Year 1642 to the Year 1651 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.'
[readings from this text also recorded in journal e... | Claire Clairmont | Germaine de Stael | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we... | John Buckley Castieau | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Timon of Athens' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | All's Well That Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Souza | Adele de Senage, ou lettres de Lord Sydenham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Corinne & Livy - S reads Corinne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Madame Fauques de Vaucluse | The Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An oriental tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamlet' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King Lear' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Othello' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julius Caesar' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King John - & Livy' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | [History Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the vision of Quivedo' | Mary Shelley | Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y Villegas | Suenos y discursos de verdades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Los rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Wednesday 25 May, Claire Clairmont transcribes stanzas 28 and 29 from
Canto II of The King's Q... | Claire Clairmont | King James I of Scotland | The King's Quair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May [...] 30th. [...] After dinner Mr. Gambs reads aloud his tale of Skold. It pleases me
very much -- Its ... | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Skold | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] After dinner M. Gambs reads aloud the 3, 4, 5, and 6th. Canto of
Moses [goes on to ... | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Moses (Cantos 3, 4, 5, 6) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Lecture on Modern History | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 27th. [...] Mr. Armfeld & the little Bielfeld spent the Evening -- we read
Wordsworth's Ballad of... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | 'Simon Lee' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came
in in [...] his usual ... | Claire Clairmont | William Robertson | The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of... | Mrs Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell: a tale in verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Madame de Stael | Considerations sur les principaux evenemens de la Revolution francaise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne' | Mary Shelley | Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament' | Mary Shelley | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate en... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Bartolome de las Casas | Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Bartolome Las Casas | Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato' | Mary Shelley | Bartolomeo de las Casas | Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry IV aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry V' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry VI aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Hobbes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hobbes' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Hobbes | Humane Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads th... | Mary Shelley | Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens | Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -' | Mary Shelley | Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens | Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828:
'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]writte... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Mary Shepherd | Essays on the Perception of an External Universe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | 'Virgil's Gnat' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vind. of the Right of Woman' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Boswell's life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumous Works of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Letters from Norway' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Letters from No[r]way' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Mary - a fiction' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary: a fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831:
'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Bla... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832:
'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Germaine de Stael | Corinne, ou L'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832:
'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life o... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832:
'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the G... | Elizabeth Barrett | August Wilhelm von Schlegel | Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Chalmers | On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837:
'I am very much obliged by your kindness in allowing me to... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Margaret Cocks | dramatic poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of goo... | Charles Darwin | Thomas Henry Lister | Granby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Wiliam Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Mary Shelley | Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?ge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I ad... | Charles Darwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Armata - read Homer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Erskine | Armata: a fragment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Don Quixote & Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Erskine | Armata: a fragment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.'
| Charles Darwin | John Frederick William Herschel | Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838:
'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Mil... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and Historical Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck | Select Memoirs of Port Royal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840:
'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been str... | Mary Russell Mitford | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Till lately I have never read Spenser, and therefore was not personally acquainted with his beauties. Neither do I me... | Emily Shore | Edmund Spenser | 'Hymn of Heavenly Beautie' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the c... | Emily Shore | Edmund Spenser | 'Mother Hubbard's Tale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | Mary Arnold-Forster | Studies in Dreams | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163. | Vernon Lee | Salomon Stricker | Du langage et de musique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | William Bateson | Problems of Genetics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I f... | William Cobbett | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on t... | S.J. Pratt | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days s... | J. Mitford | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make ... | J.P. Smith | Mary Russell Mitford | Blanch of Castile and other poems | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledg... | Lord Holland | Mary Russell Mitford | Poems on the Female Character | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and de... | Sir William Elford | Mary Russell Mitford | The Sisters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not th... | Sir William Elford | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears t... | Sir William Elford | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of "Foscari". I must frankly tell you ... | P. Bayley | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somew... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. begins King Lear in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Osservatore Fiorentino' | Mary Shelley | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Osservatore F.' | Mary Shelley | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It... | Dr Milman | Mary Russell Mitford | Cromwell | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I a... | | Mary Russell Mitford | Fanny's Fairings | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown aw... | Alexander Dyce | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for ... | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Mary Russell Mitford | Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in S... | Susanna Strickland | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to ex... | Kate Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember rea... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Inez | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainte... | Emma Roberts | Mary Russell Mitford | works | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing ... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his ... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both m... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been we... | Mary and William Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes,... | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [..... | Catharine Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last f... | N.P. Willis | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's ... | George Ticknor | Catharine M Sedgwick | Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Alfred Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Miss Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so st... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Matilda to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Matilda to E.' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish C.A. to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letters from Norway' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Wrongs of Woman' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Memoires sur la vie privee de mon pere, par Madame la Baronne de Stael Holstein, suivis des Melanges de M. Necker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1841:
'What a singular movement is this Puseyite one [...] Mr... | Elizabeth Barrett | R. M. Milnes | One Tract More, or, The System Illustrated by "The Tracts for the Times," Externally Regarded: by a Layman | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841:
'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas J. Serle | Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 7 January 1842:
'Miss Barrett -- inferring Mr Westwood from the handwriting, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Note to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842:
'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Margaret Baron-Wilson | The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his ab... | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | [letters to PB Shelley] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at f... | Mary Shelley | Madame de Genlis | Memoires inedits de madame la comtesse de Genlis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besid... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?'
[l... | Mary Shelley | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.] | Works of Garcilaso de la Vega | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful -
O let not words, the callous shell of thought
& I will not say my... | Richard Monckton Milnes | Richard Monckton Milnes | Poetry for the People | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of... | Leigh Hunt | Mary Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842:
'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming"... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Richardson | Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Summary index in pencil in Vernon Lee's hand on page 244. | Vernon Lee | Guđmundur Finnbogason | L'intelligence sympathetique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842:
'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 April 1842:
'Dear Mr Kenyon lent me Wordsworth's new volume two days ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842:
'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Me... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1842:
'I read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic] when I was thirteen: no, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I like Madme de Genlis in many of her writings [...] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Comtesse de Genlis | Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did mu... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | 'Carthon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843:
'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been ... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | Ossian poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19
January 1843:
'Since I last... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | Poems of Darthula | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon, in his Autobiography, mentions 'Liz', 'An attractive girl on the second
floor of a house ful... | Liz | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March
1843:
'Since I last wrote... | Harriet Holmes | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of... | Mary Shelley | Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon came to see me yesterday [...] and he brought ... | John Kenyon | William Wordsworth | letter to Crabbe Robinson | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843:
'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remaine... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843:
'[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Grace Darling | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843:
'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightfu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843:
'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Michael Scott | Tom Cringle's Log | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales based on Church Catechism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Earl's Daughter, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the ... | anon. | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Katherine Ashton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 December 1843:
'I admired [Richard Monckton Milne's] first volume ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lay of the Humble' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843:
'On my return from a long, weary walk through mud & mist, y... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | epitaph for Robert Southey | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 11 January 1844:
'I have [...] read your volume through [...] I have several ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Beads from a Rosary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Bartholomew Simmons | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844:
'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet s... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby: or, The New Generation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I have read some of the romances of Madme d'Abrantes ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Madame d'Abrantes | romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I prop... | Thomas Carlyle | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Germaine de Stael | Life of Necker [Jacques?] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss James has lent me, and I have been reading Alphonsine - that is the two first volumes - and it has completely be... | Sarah Harriet Burney | [Madame] de Genlis | Alphonsine, ou la tendresse maternelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary of the English Language, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been with a nice little party of College friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie, marquise de Sevigne | [letters to her daughter - exact title uncertain] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Winandermere Railway' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to Mr Wordsworth's Late Sonnet' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'I used to read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic], (the "Rights... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mad... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I too am reading Mme de Staal [sic], and am such a Goth, that I catch myself yawning over it! Probably I am not forme... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde d... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde d... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein | Zulma, et trois nouvelles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pierre-Simon Pallas | Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in 1793 and 1794 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Philippe-Paul, comte de Segur | Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendant l'annee 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Samuel Pepys | Memoirs of Samuel Pepys | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What paltry stuff the Memoirs of poor vain Genlis are!' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Stephanie Felicite Brulart, comtesse de Genlis | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922:
'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume com... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931:
'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so ma... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936:
'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, Monday 3 October 1938:
'Yesterday the Keynes came to tea. Maynard had already summe... | John Maynard Keynes | John Maynard Keynes | article on the Munich Crisis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie de Rabutin - Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and her friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Robertson | History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Shakespeare | [History plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Anna Grosvenor | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man da... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas ? Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Robertson | History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate ... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | Sodom et Gonorrhe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;)... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | 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 | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred
upon an afternoon readi... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation
into the rest of th... | Roger Fry | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The
Poetic... | Virginia Woolf | William Michael Rossetti | Memoir of Christina Rossetti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | William Robertson | Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's concept... | Vita Sackville-West | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsumm... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the... | Vita Sackville-West | William Butler Yeats | Leda and the Swan | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h... | Virginia Woolf | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mary Martha Sherwood | The Wishing Cap | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sull... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme | unknown poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Gosse | Books on the Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopk... | Virginia Woolf | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Othello | 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 | James Jeans | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".' | Frank Smythe | James Boswell | A Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have heard of nothing good in the literary way; but I read three volumes yesterday of the strangest, dullest, and m... | Matthew Lewis | Mary Wells | Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late Wells; of the Theatres- Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket: Including Her Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite En... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia | MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great | 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 sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it fall... | Frank Smythe | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | Max Eastman | The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 2 June 1932: 'Lord David [Cecil]'s party last night. Half across London [...] Edwardes Sq[a]re very large lea... | Virginia Woolf | Naomi Mitchison | Review of W. H. Auden, The Orators | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein | Petits Romans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I do not consider at all", observed Madame de C[-], "the author of a book, but only the work itself abstractedly, an... | Madame de [C-] | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madame de C[-], who appears to me to be a clever and deep-thinking person, admired the whole of it without reserve, a... | Madame de [C-] | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Madame de Stael sur les Passions. What a wonderful mind is hers! what an insight she has into the recesses of hu... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein | Treatise on the Influence of the Passions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madame de Stael's "Essai sur les fictions" delights me particularly: for every word in it is a beautiful echo of my o... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein | Essai sur les fictions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever e... | Charlotte Bury | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spender cut his tobacco allowance down to one pipeful a day in order to take with him Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and F... | Members of Shaksgam Expedition | E.M. Forster | A Passage to India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half as... | Virginia Woolf | Marguerite Steen | Hugh Walpole: A Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 300 yards above Camp III we found the body of Maurice Wilson, who had atempted to climb Mount Everest alone the... | Expedition members | Maurice Wilson | [diary] | Manuscript: Codex, Diary |
| 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 | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I have been reperusing Madame de Stael's De l'Allemagne. I cannot very we... | | Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Sta?l-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | W.H.(Bill) Tilman | Miguel (de) Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Proust, and dislike his mentality more and more. I get the sense of that flabby, diseased, asthmatic ma... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | 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 | 'Spent a quiet day at home. Read "The Story of a Life" by Sherer; a powerfully written book with vivid description and... | Charlotte Bury | Joseph Moyle Sherer | The Story of a Life. By the Author of Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and Italy, Recollections of the Peninsula, &c | 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 | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'I happened to open Madame de Stael's "Allemagne", and passed the whole night in reading that delightful work over aga... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Mademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Les voeux temeraires : ou L' enthousiasme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not ... | Matthew Lewis | Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.' | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | La Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoules | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines m... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Popes et popadias (published in book form as Les Filles du Pope) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the n... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Joujou | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something.... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the b... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the ... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I reread "Yaga" only the other day. It gave me intense pleasure. I read slowly and mingled my dreams with these page... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not clear whether this was being read in the book version or that published in the Revue des Deux Monde |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every singl... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! The... | Joseph Conrad | Humphry James | Paddy's Woman and Other Storiesries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Easdale | Middle Age: 1885-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | William Roscoe | [pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe' | Manuscript: presumably in MS |
| 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 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and... | James Hogg and John Wilson | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his... | Francis Jeffrey | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Poems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Marcel Proust | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | E.M. Forster | Celestial Omnibus, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid... | James Hogg | Thomas Gillespie | [various pieces in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1820] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for in... | James Hogg | Mr Brooks | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[After sighting land believed by captain and crew of Jamaica Packet to be Graciosa, island in the Azores] the next th... | Janet Schaw and other passengers on board Jamaica Packet | Thomas Salmon | A New Geographical and Historical Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,... | Janet Schaw | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,... | Robert Howe | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did ... | Janet Schaw | Sir William Chambers | A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Ho... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Caroline Emelia Stephen | Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort". | John Keats | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.-
"The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought,
A... | John Keats | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmu... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Crossley | 'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I... | Walter Savage Landor | William Gaskell | Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I... | John Maynard Keynes | John Maynard Keynes | 'Memoir Club' paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lucknow' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in w... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wetmore Story | Cleopatra | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.' | Arnold Bennett | Dorothy M. Richardson | Backwater | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his fa... | Joseph Conrad | William Shakespeare | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, One page of his father's translation into Polish. |
| 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 | 'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from o... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Pour Noemi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Ni... | Miss Thompson | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't tell you what delight and happiness The Eternal Moment has been to me, and I can't thank you enough for your ... | Edith Sitwell | E M Forster | The Eternal Moment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845:
'Do you know "Le macon" by Michel Raymond --? It is not a... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Raymond Brucker and Michel Masson | Le macon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845:
'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [... | Robert Browning | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845:
'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | William Marshall | Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845:
'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first t... | Robert Browning | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843 | 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 | Mary Wollstonecraft | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Leadbeter! - Yes indeed I do well remember You! not Leadbeter then, but a pretty demure Lass, standing a timid A... | Mary Shackleton | Mary Shackleton | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received Mr Roger's poem of which I was happy to hear an admirable Character at Bath & in Company where nothin... | friends of Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I as... | lady friends of Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I as... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I ... | George Crabbe | Abraham Scott | Calvinistic Doctrines Refuted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850:
'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Catherine Maria Fanshawe | poems | Manuscript: Unknown, copied |
| 1800-1849 | 'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few p... | George Crabbe | William Lisle Bowles | Parochial History of Bremhill, The | 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 | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905:
'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to trave... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | 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 | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905:
'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordi... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital... | Antonia White | Humphrey Jennings | Little town in France | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not w... | Antonia White | Marcel Proust | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave ... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | [diary notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | I have been Drowned | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Antonia White | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Emily Coleman | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | Man Below, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906:
'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading ... | Shakespeare Reading Society | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907:
'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an as... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | The Longest Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908:
'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] &... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | A Room with a View | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Samuel Richardson | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I cannot, except my own Countrywoman, Mrs [italics] Grierson [end italics], find out another female Writer, whose Wor... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mrs Grierson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.' | Vita Sackville-West | William Wordsworth | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Morgan Forster | "The Greek Feeling for Nature" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, 1 January 1905:
'I was up [at Cambridge] for a fortnight, and read the Society [i.e... | | Edward Morgan Forster | paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[George Macaulay] Trevelyan wrote to Leonard Woolf (December 1905 [...]) "I wonder whether you will have seen E. M. F... | George Macaulay Trevelyan | E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, 2 July 1909:
'Something exciting is coming on [...] The Minister for Foreign Aff... | Sir Edward Grey | E. M. Forster | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Amber Reeves | The Reward of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.' | Harold Nicolson | Emily Dickinson | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] Wollaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, tho' frequently intermingled with Mathematical Pro... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Wollaston | Religion of Nature Delineated, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Woolaston | Religion of Nature Delineated, The | 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 | 'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some... | Vita Sackville-West | Edmund Wilson | Through the Embassy Window; Harold Nicolson | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words ar... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | 'British Storms' in Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Robert... | Ford Madox Ford | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | Time of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - sugge... | Ford Madox Ford | Edward Morgan Forster | Aspects of the Novel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'. | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | Time of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | William Wordsworth | 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | letter (in "Nature") | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father's brief lines were full of a sombre perplexity only too familiar. Indirectly, however, they carried a special ... | Ralph Glasser | Mr Glasser | [letters to his son, Ralph] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Margaret De Quincey | William Wordsworth | "She Was a Phantom of Delight" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A thousand thanks for the article you devote to me in the "Revue". I read it with lively interest, profound attention... | Joseph Conrad | Kazimierz Waliszewski | Un cas de naturalisation littéraire: Joseph Conrad | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted ... | Joseph Conrad | Kazimierz Waliszewski | Ivan le Terrible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s... | Joseph Conrad | W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson | The London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life ed. H.S.Salt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s... | Joseph Conrad | W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson
'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo... | Virginia Woolf | Margaret Symonds | Days Spent on a Doge's Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an India... | E. M. Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Edward Carpenter | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Roger Fry | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Sydney Waterlow | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, t... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki... | | Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael | Dix Années d'exil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Emmanuel Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations o the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Mary Shelley | Last Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncout... | Anne Romilly | Germaine de Stael | Corinne, or Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to hi... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Thomson | Annals of Philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the libe... | Anne Romilly | Henri-Benjamin Constant-de Rebecque | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the lib... | Samuel Romilly | Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'The review [by Maria Edgeworth] of "Les Peines et les Recompenses" [French edition by Dumont of Bentham's treatise] c... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | James Mackintosh | Edinburgh Review [review of Madame de Stael's 'De l'Allemagne'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much ... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ' have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of "L'Angleterr... | James Mackintosh | Germaine de Stael | [writings about England, never published as 'De L'Angleterre', as originally planned] | Manuscript: 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 | 'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla... | Anne Romilly | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | [children's plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be t... | Anne Romilly | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be t... | Mr Whishaw | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn... | | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [papers left at his death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have a... | James Boswell | William Mason | Memoirs of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his ch... | James Boswell | William Mason | [Memoir of William Whitehead] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he beha... | Samuel Johnson | Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda of his reading] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | Mr Langton | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | George III | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Shakespeare | [History Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he aft... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he aft... | Peter Garrick | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a ... | John Douglas | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Epitaph [on 'Philips, a musician'] is so exquisitely beautiful that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejud... | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Samuel Johnson | Epitaph on Philips, a Musician | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it [Johnson's "Life of Savage"] in Devonshir... | Joshua Reynolds | Samuel Johnson | Life of Savage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript,... | Dr Taylor | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript,... | William Whitehead | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[extract of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Dr Birch] I have just now seen the specimen of Mr Johnson's dictionar... | John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | David Garrick | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | David Garrick | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal. | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in whi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [notes collected for periodical articles] | Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Johnson, in whose judgement and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of "The Rambler" ... | Elizabeth Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Ram... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicis... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | Edward Young | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [account given to him by Mrs Williams] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa... | Robert Dodsley | Samuel Johnson | [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa... | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Samuel Johnson | [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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 | 'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnso... | Mr Wise | Mr Wise | History and Chronology of the fabulous Ages, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal":
"[it... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda for a projected literary journal] | Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The part of your "Dictionary" which you have favoured me with the sight of has given me such an idea of the whole, th... | Thomas Birch | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | [Plan for his dictionary] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [essays] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Idler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to fo... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. M. Forster | short stories | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he af... | James Boswell | Thomas Sheridan | Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in so... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Hugh Blair | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Life of [Richard] Savage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Plan [for Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | remarks on Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric':
'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | 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 ... | David Dalrymple | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | David Dalrymple | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a poem"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows :
"At church, Oct.—65.
" To avoid all singularity; [italics... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [journal] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to ... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [letter to Johnson from Corsica] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Madame de Genlis | Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opi... | James Edward Austen | James Edward Austen | unpublished manuscript story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [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 | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the ... | James and Mary Lackington | Thomas Secker | Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the ... | James and Mary Lackington | Thomas Wilson | Sermons | 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 | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | 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 | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [letters to his sisters and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | James Thomson | [letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Alexander Pope | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | Together | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Mr Murphy | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Oliver Goldsmith | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Dominique Bouhours | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | History of the British Expedition to Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on Napoleon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame... | Edward Morgan Forster | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain sh... | Samuel Johnson | James MacPherson | 'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery':
'"Nor shall your p... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | Sonnets of the Imagination XLII | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ... | James Boswell | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ... | Samuel Johnson | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Thomas Erskine | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Paterson | Another Traveller: or Cursory Remarks and Critical Observations made upon a Journey through Part of the Netherlands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [manuscript plan for a fable] | Manuscript: 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 | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | 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... | James Boswell | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust,... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Le Temps Retrouve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | 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) | William Shakespeare | | 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) | Sir William Jones | | 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) | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Edmund Spenser | | 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 | Joseph Marie Eugene Sue | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to l... | Alfred Tennyson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Arthur Hallam | Sir William Blackstone | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson:
'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with s... | Arthur Hallam | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics | 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] Last night I corrected the last page of our "Journey to the Hebrides".' | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: proofs |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Be pleased to accept of my best thanks for your "Journey to the Hebrides", which cam... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 | Samuel Johnson | [Latin verses upon Inchkenneth] | Manuscript: Unknown, in latin |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | Dr Orme | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi... | James Boswell | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The observations of my friend Mr. Dempster in a letter written to me, soon after he had read Dr. Johnson's book, are ... | Mr Dempster | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Knox, another native of Scotland, who has since made the same tour, and published an account of it, is equally li... | Mr Knox | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Tytler, the acute and able vindicator of Mary Queen of Scots, in one of his letters to Mr. James Elphinstone, pub... | Mr Tytler | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetr... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary ve... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | New Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the de... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834:
'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them,... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | 'Highland sonnets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834:
'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them,... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | 'The Egyptian Maid, or, The Romance of the Water Lily' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | Print: proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Patriot, The | |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by Joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found his " Journey" the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be. At one of... | William Murray, First Earl Mansfield | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 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 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was here solaced with an elegant entertainment, a very accomplished family, and much good company; among whom... | Mr Harris | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die... | Samuel Johnson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 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 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | 'That ingenious and elegant gentleman's [Shenstone's] opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves,... | William Shenstone | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo'... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | Mark Akenside | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His faul... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th... | James Boswell | William Shakespeare | Othello | 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 | 'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Sharp | Letters from Italy, describing the Customs and Manners of that Country | 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 | 'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involve... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [a legal argument] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | John Wilkes | James Boswell | [notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your paper on "Vicious Intromission" is a noble proof of what you can do even in Sco... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [paper on an aspect of Scottish law] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | James Boswell | An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island, & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One Shaw, who seems a modest and a decent man, has written an Erse Grammar, which a very learned Highlander, Macbean,... | Mr Macbean | William Shaw | [Erse Grammar] | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] You forget that Mr. Shaw's "Erse Grammar" was put into your hands by myself last yea... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [proposals for the publication of William Shaw's 'Erse Grammar'] | Print: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'. | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , the | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Edmund Burke | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Mr Jackson | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Mr Jones | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] wrote also "The Convict's Address to his unhappy Brethren", a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd [ a clergyman... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for Dr Dodd] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for John Taylor] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | Samuel Johnson | John Wilmot, Lord Rochester | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | John Taylor | John Wilmot, Lord Rochester | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, a... | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke | James Steuart | Dirleton's Doubts and Questions in the Law of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles th... | James Boswell | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Smith | 'Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated char... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I cannot tell you with what delight I found your lovely history of Alexandria, and your most kind letter, awaiting me... | Edith Sitwell | E M Forster | Alexandria: A History and Guide | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This summer [1857] the tour was to Manchester, Coniston, Inverary Castle, and Carstairs (the home of my father's coll... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ... | Wilfred Owen | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ... | Wilfred Owen | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | William Michael Rossetti | Life of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guid... | Wilfred Owen | William Michael Rossetti | Life of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | William Butler Yeats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Dean Howells | Undoscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-... | Samuel Johnson | Soame Jenyns | View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-... | James Boswell | Soame Jenyns | View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very... | James Boswell | William Marshall | Minutes of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and s... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Lighthouse Construction and Illumination | Manuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy |
| 1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862:
'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the... | Edward Fitzgerald | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64):
'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | [speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield] | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| | 'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who... | Samuel Johnson | William Tasker | Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson] The Bishop, to whom I had the honour to be known several years ago, shews me much a... | Beilby Porteus | Samuel Johnson | Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment... | Isaac Archer | William Perkins | Armilla Aurea, or The Golden Chain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of G... | Isaac Archer | James Ussher | A Body of Divinitie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to sati... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when g... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson was fair to Milton's poetic genius, despite hating his politics] Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be consider... | Dr Towers | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [Life of Young in 'Lives of the Poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | James Boswell | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | Oliver Goldsmith | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Astle | [notes on the will of King Alfred] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late... | William Bewley | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late... | William Bewley | Samuel Johnson | Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A clergyman at Bath wrote to him, that in "The Morning Chronicle", a passage in "The Beauties of Johnson" [unauthoris... | Lancelot St Albyn | Samuel Johnson | [excerpt from a work, reprinted in the Bath 'Morning Chronicle'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might ... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who kn... | Samuel Johnson | William Chambers | Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils : to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read Wm S- letter and thought upon it and religion before I got up, I think of and feel religion at times but I do ... | Elizabeth Gurney | William Savery | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening I have been reading a good deal in the "Monk". I don't know whether it hurts the mind or not, it certain... | Elizabeth Gurney | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may rea... | Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my note... | James Boswell | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had dined that day [30th May 1784] at Mr. Hoole's, and Miss Helen Maria Williams being expected in the evening, Mr... | Samuel Johnson | Helen Maria Williams | Ode on the Peace, An | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have this day read Rasselas which is a book I like as it leads to deep affection' | Elizabeth Gurney | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'wrote a little logic this afternoon and read Jones on the Figurative languages of the Scriptures' | Elizabeth Gurney | William Jones | A course of lectures on the figurative language of the Holy Scripture, and the interpretation of it from Scripture itself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of a... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by t... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[speaking of some verses in the notes to Pope's Dunciad, Boswell and Miss Seward wonder who they are by] He was promp... | Samuel Johnson | Mr Lewis | [verses on Pope in notes to the 'Dunciad'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [MS Autobiography] | Manuscript: quarto volumes |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says S... | Hester Maria Salusbury | Moses Franks | [verses on Mrs Pitt bathing] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'. | Charles Burney | James Harris | Philosophical Arrangements | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Mr Pepys | [verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b... | Charles Causley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[a young man] Mr Allen - resolved to take Orders and made proper Application: The Bishop asked him of course what he ... | Mr Allen | Soame Jennings | Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil | Print: Book |
| | Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the... | George Otto Trevelyan | Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | Private diary of travels, personal services, and public events ... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Gl... | George Otto Trevelyan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'Rogers used often to read to him passages of his writin... | Samuel Rogers | Samuel Rogers | | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Tom Hughes | Alfred the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morr... | Alfred Tennyson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | 'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | English Odes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-se... | George Otto Trevelyan | Mary Boykin Chesnut | A diary from Dixie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says... | James Mathias | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Camille Debans | Le Baron Jean (Baron John) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes o... | Winifred Holtby | Thomas Hobbes | The Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Disc... | Winifred Holtby | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on v... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought th... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Samuel Johnson | Adam Ferguson | Essay on the History of Civil Society | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | William Rose | Adam Ferguson | Essay on the History of Civil Society | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Inconstancy'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edmund Elys | Inconstancy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - reve... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edmund Elys | Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'of James Harris Dedication to his Hermes he said that tho' but 14 Lines long, there were 6 Grammatical faults in it'.... | Samuel Johnson | James Harris | [Dedication in] Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Jones | [MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day] | 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 | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[at a gathering on the Isle of Wight] it fell to Paterson's Share [in a rhyming contest] it seems to celebrate Kitty ... | Mr Paterson | Mr Paterson | [verses written to Kitty Parker] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | Samuel Richardson | | 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 | Adam Olearius | Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Alabaster, 'Dr Alabasters verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Alabaster | Verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of extracts from a speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his imp... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Scroggs | Speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his impeachment in 1680-1 | Print: Book |
| | 'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | 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 | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Spring' | 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 | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Summer' | 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 | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Southern | Fatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adultery | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: a Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Mason | 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's survey of his father's 'Criticisms on Poets and Poetry':
'After reading Pericles, Act v. alo... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Pericles (Act V) | 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 | William Wordsworth | The Recluse | Print: 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 Disraeli | Henrietta Temple | Print: 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 Disraeli | Lothair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Miss Lawless | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordswor... | Alfred Tennyson | William Watson | 'Wordsworth's Grave' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | Samuel Scott | A diary of some religious exercises, and experience of Samuel Scott, late of Hartford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | King Lear, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Hallam Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day:
'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day:
'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breer... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Whiston | Astronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great Year MDCCXXXVI. Particularly of the Late Comet, Which was foretold by Sir Isaac Newton | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| 1700-1799 | 'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's sev... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Joseph Sorbiere | Sorberiana | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit. Dialogues. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Harrison | 'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [a story] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: 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 Disraeli | Lothair | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands ov... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He read to-night Mark Antony's Oration very fairly indeed for a boy of his age' | Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | Anthony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read for some time with Harry, he manages Shakespeare tolerably well for a boy of his age' | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.' | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'. | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-digg... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-digg... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I came home I found Charley Gee engaged with our youngsters singing comic songs & making himself otherwise enter... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | 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 | William Shakespeare | Othello | 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 | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 10-11 December 1791: 'As I have nothing else to say take a story I read yesterday a... | Robert Southey | Mary Wollstonecraft | Original Stories from Real Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I co... | Robert Southey | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined cr... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined cr... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | William Gladstone | Mark Pattison | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | 'Confession of Faith' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | William Gladstone | Gleanings Of Past Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Mary Berenson’s article on eighteenth century architecture in Spain most interestingly illustrates a principle ... | Arnold Bennett | Mary Berenson | [article on C18th architecture] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810:
'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I h... | Spencer Perceval | William Huskisson | 'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined' | |
| 1500-1599 | 'then reed a whill of perkins, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825:
'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner... | John Wilson Croker | Camille Desmoulins | journal | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | girls at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | M.L. Molesworth | Cuckoo Clock, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | young children at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | William Thomas Stead | [Books for the Bairns] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'. | Mary Augusta Ward | Wlliam James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | William James | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and againe took order of for supper and hard one of my wemen read of perkins' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed in perkins tell I went againe to the Church' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | 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 | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.' | Robert Southey | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Your plan of a general satire I am ready ... | Robert Southey | Martin Scriblerus [pseud.] | Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | William Collins | Ode to Evening | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would... | Robert Southey | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of the Imagination | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'Have you ever seen Bowles’s poems & more particularly his sonnets... | Robert Southey | William Lisle Bowles | Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive. Written During a Tour | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after, Hard Mr Hoby read of perkins tell all most 5 a clock' | Thomas Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after that, I reed of perkins, hauinge som further Conference with my Cossine' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev W. F. Hook to John Wilson Croker, 8 April 1839:
'Mr. Murray forwarded to me a copy of the "Quarterly Review... | T. W. Hook | William Sewell | article on 'the Oxford Divines' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe' | Thomas Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.' | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Island of Typhoeus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Marcel Proust | Du Coté chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'. | Alfred Rawlings | William Watson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'. | Bertha M. Pollard | William Watson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Earl of Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, in response to a query regarding quotation from Homer by Thucydides, 1 Sep... | Earl of Aberdeen | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51):
'And so you are reading my Bozzy'. | Henry Brougham | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John 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 Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr perkins new booke' | Richard Rhodes | William Perkins | A warning against the idolatrie of the last times | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I hard Mr Rhodes read of perkin' | Richard Rhodes | William Perkins | A warning against the idolatrie of the last times | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat prairs I reed of Mr perkins, and after went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | 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 | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'in the after none, when she was Gon, I reed a Little of Mr Rogers book to Anne france' | Margaret Hoby | Thomas Rogers | A pretious book of heavenly meditations, called a private talk of the soule with God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, 'Grosvenor I have a curiosity for you. two sonnets by J... | Robert Southey | James Jennings | Sonnets on Metaphor and Personification | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first | Robert Southey | Helen Maria Williams | Letters from France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 21-22 November 1795, 'This is a foul country. the tinners inhabit the ... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that... | XII Book Club members | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that... | Harold J. Morland | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that... | Adelaide Morland | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis' | Helen Rawlings | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Edminson | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis' | Constance Wallis | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'a short paper on Wordsworth and Poetic diction was read by the Secretary' | Alfred Rawlings | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Harold J. Morland | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Take a sonnet for the Ladies imitated from th... | Robert Southey | Bartolomè Leonardo de Argensola | sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Adelaide Morland | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading S... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 8. Read once again the "... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, volume 2 chapter 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | 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 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass... | George Grote | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 'theological writings' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th centur... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Isle of Typhoeus | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme included [...] a Shakespearean reading in the garden from the Tempest in which many members and some vi... | Members of the XII Book Club, and guests | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".' | Frederick J. Edminson | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'I have now read the Monk — & admire the delicacy of Le... | Robert Southey | Matthew ("Monk") Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | Charles Stansfield | H.M. Wallis | [paper on Kipling] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are n... | Robert Southey | William Lisle Bowles | Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'When I was with George Dyer one morning last week Mary Hayes & Miss C... | Robert Southey | Mary Hays | articles in the Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'Blackstone & I agree better than perhaps you imagine. true it is ... | Robert Southey | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 28 April, 1797: 'Have you ever met with Mary Wollstonecrafts letters from Sweden & N... | Robert Southey | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have only seen the former parts of the Pursuits of L... | Robert Southey | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature, or What You Will. A Satirical Poem in Dialogue. With Notes. Part the Second | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have now gone thro Blackstone often & attentively, s... | Robert Southey | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 August 1797: 'Our Edwards were tolerable considering the day they l... | Robert Southey | Edmund Howes | The Annales, or Generalle Chronicle of England, Begun First by Maister John Stow, and After Him Continued and Augmented with Matters Forreine and Domesticall unto the End of Yeare 1610, by E. H. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: '...but there is a man, whose name is not known in... | Robert Southey | William Wordsworth | The Borderers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine y... | Robert Southey | William Shakespeare | [history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and II] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return... | Robert Southey | Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo | De Claris Mulieribus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Helen Rawlings | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Pattie Stansfield | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | T.T. Cass | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Mrs Cass | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "Peculiarities of Behaviour" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything d... | Thomas Kitching | Wilhelm Stekel | Peculiarities of Behaviour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Ru... | prisoners of war | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'March 1837'. Transcription of various of Madame de Sévign... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné | The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Of M. De Glessir, Tutor to the young Marquis Grignan (Admir... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné | The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??illegible] and portraits as an intr... | Maria Neild | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Frederick Edminson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int... | Elizabeth Edminson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int... | Charles Stansfield | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'. | William Henry Smith | William Henry Smith | [Paper on Ruskin] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sir William Molesworth to Harriet Grote, September 1838, regarding his planned edition of the
works of Thomas Hobbes... | William Molesworth | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Elizabeth Edminson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Blanche Ridges | William Morris | [political works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Miss Goadby | William Morris | [poetry and prose] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter was read from Mr Stubington expressing regret at withdrawing from the Club on account of leaving the town.' | Alfred Rawlings | Mr Stubington | [letter of resignation from XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished a... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Siren Land | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron's example has formed a sort of Upper House of poetry. There is Lord Leveson Gower a very clever young man. Lo... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the course of the summer of this year [1856] an article appeared in the pages of the
"Quarterly Review," upon Mr... | George Grote | William Smith | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Copies of "The Solitary Way" came along: looks quite nice. Looking at this handful of lyrics of unequal quality, one ... | William Soutar | William Soutar | The Solitary Way | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading over the adjoining note, on Gibbon's death, today, leaves me with a sense of inhumanity.' | William Soutar | William Soutar | journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'Advance copy of "Brief Words" came along; looks very well - scarcely anything that could be improved upon - excepting... | William Soutar | William Soutar | Brief Words | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intell... | William Soutar | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is uni... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | On my 21st Birthday | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him
So wise and young they say never live long.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two year... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three days ago I would have been contented to buy this consola as Judy says, dearer than by a dozen falls in the mud ... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803):
'I have been crying my eyes out over "... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Germaine de Stael | Delphine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 19 November 1803 ('Friday evening'):
'I just this mom... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 24 November 1803:
'I lament the reason I am going t... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters (vol. 5) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess ... | Joseph Conrad | Carl Murrell Marris | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.' | John Ruskin | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", a... | John Ruskin | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 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 | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 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 | Edmund Spenser | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; ... | John Ruskin | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | William Wordsworth | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsumm... | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 November 1807:
'I attribute my cold to going to Je... | William Spencer | William Spencer | Latin epitaph on Mr Sargent | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808:
'I am glad that I mention... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Thompson | The Castle of Indolence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808:
'I am glad that I mention... | Lady Stafford | James Thompson | The Castle of Indolence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek ... | John Ruskin | William Bell Scott | [memoir David Scott] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa... | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and ... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father:
'"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admire... | Ralph Milbanke | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'. | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Jardin de Bérénice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was' | John Ruskin | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'. | M.A. Wallis | M.A. Wallis | [paper on Marcus Aurelius] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'. | M.A. Wallis | Marcus Aurelius | | Print: Book |
| 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 | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Florence Reynolds | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Elizabeth Edminson | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | As you like it | Print: 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 Disraeli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am returning your Memoirs.
Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips h... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memoirs | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith's works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | William Smith | William Smith | [paper on Shelley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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... | William [?] Harris | William [?] Harris | [paper on W.S. Landor] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[ev... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited in evidence | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.' | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | unidentified | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came... | Joseph Conrad | (Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture | Peter's Mother | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on English ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Hardy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Charles Stansfield | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Walter Rowntree | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Charles Evans | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Walter Rowntree | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | H.M. Wallis and Charles Evans | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on parodies] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 8 March 1826:
'Being jaded and sleepy I took up Le Duc de Guise en Naples. I think this, with the old Me... | Walter Scott | M. De Pastoret | Le Duc de Guise a Naples etc. en 1647 et 1648 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted.... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Siren Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveab... | Joseph Conrad | W.H.(William Henry) Hudson | A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (probable) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', be... | Catherine Austen | James Thomson | Ode: Tell me thou Soul of her I love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'The following lines are a translation of a Latin Sonnet written b... | Catherine Austen | Mary Queen of Scots | Sonnet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "What is Love?” by M. S'. | Catherine Austen | M S | What is Love? | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ”To the Butterfly” by Samuel Rogers. | Catherine Austen | Samuel Rogers | To the Butterfly | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William... | Joseph Conrad | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'An excellent plot, excellent friends, and full of preparations'.
Footnote: An allusion to Hotspur's plot in I Henr... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 11 June 1827:
'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took u... | Walter Scott | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 28 March 1828:
'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a r... | Walter Scott | James Thomson | Tales of an Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Morris | translation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on historical setting of Browning's 'Sordello'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Ernest E. Unwin | Henry Marriage Wallis | [prefatory notes to Browning's 'Sordello'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Members of XII Book Club | John Millington Synge | Tinker's Wedding, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Members of XII Book Club | John Millington Synge | Playboy of the Western World, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Members of XII Book Club | William Butler Yeats | Countess Cathleen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's scientific writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Alfred Rawlings | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Helen Rawlings | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Katherine Evans | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Reginald Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Mary Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Charles Stansfield | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843:
'We read about Ireland with great... | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | Mr Sheil | speech | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and ... | William Gifford | Thomas a Kempis | Imitatio Christi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Barnes | 'What Dick and I did' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Walter S. Rowntree | William Barnes | 'Sky Man, the' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Florence E. Reynolds | William Barnes | 'Ellen Brine of Allenburn' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Charles Evans | William Barnes | 'Settle, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Charles Evans | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Katherine Evans | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Reginald Robson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | Sigurd the Volsung | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Gilbert Murray] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Wells's 'Romances'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Reginald Robson | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on an altar stone found near Carthage] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper introducing Balzac] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on the Comic] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Ernest E. Unwin | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Leslie's 'The End of a Chapter'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Mrs Molesworth | The Tapestry Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | William Harrison Ainsworth | Boscobel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can b... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Hardy's life and work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Elizabeth Marriage | Edmund Gosse | Two visits to Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | [literary criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Charles Evans | Edmund Gosse | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Ernest E. Unwin | Edmund Gosse | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I hav... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of 'The Winter's Tale'. The production was under the joint managemen... | Members of XII Book Club | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the ... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Sprat | 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. Pindarick Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plag... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Sprat | The Plague of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Reading notes from the English translation of A New Light of ... | Edward Pordage | Michał Sędziwój | A New Light of Alchymy; Taken out of ye Fountain of Nature & Manual Experi-ence. To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Wilson | The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Browning's The Ring & the Book] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Rosamund Wallis | William Henry Hudson | Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ernest E. Unwin | William Henry Hudson | Book of a Naturalist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ursula Unwin | William Henry Hudson | Hampshire Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ernest E. Unwin | William Henry Hudson | [naturalist writing] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Charles Evans | William Henry Hudson | [writing on Hampshire villages] | 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 | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Love Peacock] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 27 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 Disraeli | Sybil, or The Two Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 27 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 Disraeli | Sybil, or The Two Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 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 ?Disraeli | Alroy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 October 1879, from Berlin:
'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 October 1879, from Berlin:
'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | history plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selection... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Mrs Edwards, ed. | Selections from the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 November 1879:
'We left Bruges by an early train, the express, joining the steamer at Ostend, and had a beautiful... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Benjamin Disraeli | pamphlet [featuring descriptions of Syria and Cyprus] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A... | Joseph Conrad | H.|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson | The Fog | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 li... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himse... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Christianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testimony and the Deductions from Physical Science | |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Elémir Bourges | Le Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs Contemporaines | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Elémir Bourges | (probably) Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am ch... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Hors du Foyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 1... | Joseph Conrad | Sara Morgan Dawson | A Confederate Girl's Diary | Manuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text) |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days l... | Vera Brittain | Storm Jameson | No Time Like the Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public t... | Vera Brittain | Raymond Swing | Harper's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on History of Berkshire] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. Th... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Piltdown Woman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ... | Joseph Conrad | W. H. (William Henry) Davies | either The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Ernest E. Unwin | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Reginald Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Rosamund Wallis | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Mary Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Pepys] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Alfred Rawlings | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Ernest E. Unwin | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Reginald Robson | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Charles Evans | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion t... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Samuel Pepys | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880]
'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acqui... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Samuel Pepys | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "[The]Advertisement" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.' | Joseph Conrad | (Basil) Macdonald Hastings | The Advertisement: A Play in Four Acts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Laurence Housman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887]
'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovere... | Maria [nee Guest] | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Howard R. Smith | Henry Marriage Wallis | [parody of 'We are Seven'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890]
'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read... | | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] Th... | George Robert Fitzgerald | Mary Robinson | 'pastoral [poem]' | Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members ... | members of XII Book Club | William Butler Yeats | Land of Heart's Desire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members ... | members of XII Book Club | William Butler Yeats | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members ... | Celia Burrow | William Butler Yeats | 'Down by the Salley Gardens' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | R.B. Graham | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Charles Stansfield | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Charles Stansfield | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Charles and Katherine Evans | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | George Burrow | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | R.B. Graham and Francis Pollard | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minister | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Katherine Evans | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Series of Character Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Mary Robson | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Revolution in Tanner's Lane, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Florence Reynolds | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Catharine Furze | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Constance Burrow | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Mark Rutherford's Deliverance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Rosamund Wallis | Rosamund Wallis | [paper on Anglo-India and Forster] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Francis Pollard | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | R.B. Graham | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Elizabeth Marriage | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Rosamund Wallis | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 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 | Rosamund Wallis | Some Thoughts on Racing | 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 | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals | 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 | Henry Marriage Wallis | Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | [from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn']
'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. Sh... | Aphra Behn | Mademoiselle de Scudery | | Print: Book |
| 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 | Samuel Johnson | Prose writings | Print: 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 | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740:
'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740:
'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740:
'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriende... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741:
'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets o... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela (two sheets from part II) | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754:
'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary ... | 'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----' | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756:
'My good old folks --you can't think how I love... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1748
[comments in detail, with page references, on passages in latest ... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volume 3) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 6 June 1753, following visit to Richardson on 3 June 1753:
'The delicious meal ... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 27 May 1750:
'I have just finished the sheets [of Clarissa] you favoured me wit... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751:
'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; bu... | | Samuel Richardson | 'writings' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | J. Channing to Samuel Richardson, 31 October 1748:
'I returned your papers on Saturday, with sincere thanks, myself... | J. Channing | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751:
'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I ... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Ramble... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751:
'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson anot... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751:
'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know... | Catherine Talbot | Maximilien de Bethune de Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751:
'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, d... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]:
'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellan... | Catherine Talbot | Mary Jones | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | 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 | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sevigne | Letters (vol. 7) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753:
'Our days here pass too pleasantly to... | Catherine Talbot and family | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753:
'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [letter published in the "Sunday "Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [Letter published in the "Sunday Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re... | Howard R. Smith | Henry Marriage Wallis | "The Price of his Soul" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | Charles Evans | William Henry Hudson | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | George Burrow | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on geology] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | C. Elliott | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | [letter] | Print: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Charles Evans | Molly Elliott Seawell | The Ladies' Battle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 February 1756:]
'We have looked in Johnson [i.e. his Dictionary] for [ita... | Catherine Talbot and family | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Four one act plays were then read:
"Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Co... | Members of XII Book Club | Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany | Fame and the Poet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Mrs C. Elliott reviewed "A Book of Discovery" by N. B. [sic] Synge' | C. Elliott | M. B Synge | A Book of Discovery | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:]
'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collecte... | Elizabeth Carter | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:]
'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to M... | Catherine Talbot | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts... | Joseph Conrad | (Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts) | The Angel in the House | Print: probably an acting edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishab... | Joseph Conrad | William Rothenstein | A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and Craftsmen | |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | ?Thomas Sherlock | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Secker | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one doe... | Joseph Conrad | Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett) | Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates | Print: Book |
| 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, 26 January 1749:]
'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | ?The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:]
'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Sp... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:]
'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give... | anon | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:]
'I have not been ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:]
'The reading of Spenser's ... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dmowski | Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe | Print: Book, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain |
| 1900-1945 | 'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the las... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Gosse | Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:]
'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) aga... | Sarah Scudamore | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antago... | Anne Donnellan | Thomas Edwards | Canons of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750:
'[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for ... | '[Mrs A. Dewes's] sister and the Dean' | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752:
'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading ... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Patrick Delany to Samuel Richardson, 20 December 1753:
'I have begun a second time with Sir Charles Grandison, and ... | Patrick Delany | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [From ed. notes:]
'[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following mann... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volumes 1-4) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson (letter undated):]
'Just as I was sending this to... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volume 5) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson, 11 January [1748/9], on completing reading of final... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (final 3 volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:]
'My lif... | Charlotte Bronte | Thomas Sims | Brief Memorials of Jean Frédéric Oberlin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'full of good & useful matter' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | James Kay-Shuttleworth | Proof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training School | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.' | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Gosse | Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].' | Joseph Conrad | Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' | Joseph Conrad | John William Fortescue | History of the British Army: Extracts from British Campaigns in Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"]... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Major Tomlinson | Old Junk | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.' | Joseph Conrad | Thomas James Wise | A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Part 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the ... | Joseph Conrad | William Rothenstein | Twenty-Four Portraits, with Critical Appreciation by Various Hands | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your last letter was very nice.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Isabella Stevenson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.' | Joseph Conrad | Marcel Proust | Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
... | Joseph Conrad | Marcel Proust | Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the w... | Joseph Conrad | William Henry Hudson | 153 Letters from W. H. Hudson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | Modern Polish Literature: a course of lectures delivered in the School of Slavonic studies, King's College, University of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | Periods of Polish Literary History: Being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1923 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | ?The Religious Element in Polish National Life | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It ... | Joseph Conrad | Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer) | Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Grand-daughter | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 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 | Max Adeler pseud. i.e Charles Heber Clark | Out of the Hurly Burly: or Life in an Odd Corner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a mill town in the late 1840's, a group of girl operatives met at five o'clock in the morning to read Shakespeare ... | | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again...... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that th... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | James Shirley | 'Death the Leveller' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part... | Francis Pollard | William Shakespeare | The Two Noble Kinsmen | |
| 1900-1945 | H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings
| Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | War Time Tree Fellings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Martha L. (Pattie) Stansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | E. Dorothy Brain | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Thomas C. Elliott | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Charles E. Stansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Alfred Rawlings | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Mary Pollard | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Howard Smith | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Rosamund Wallis | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Helen Rawlings | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Mary E. Robson | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Charles E. Stansfield | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | George Burrow | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Howard Smith | Muriel Bowman-Smith | [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield: 15. V. 31
George Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5. George Burro... | Members of the XII Book Club | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | Southern Baroque Art | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair
'Meeting held at School H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [an account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so re... | Emma Darwin | William Ewart Gladstone | England's Mission | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary E. Robson | Mary. E Robson | [a description of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [on the later work of Walter Scott] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Charles E. Stansfield | Henry M. Wallis | [Of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour] | 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 | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Henry Marriage Wallis | My dear Twelve | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.' | Emma Darwin | Wilhelm Scherer | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Reginald H. Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Charles E. Stansfield | William Wordsworth | Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... "We are quite near Agincourt", I wrote d... | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Alfred Rawlings | William Watson | [unidentified poetry] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [a paper on witchcraft] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Janet Rawlings | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Dorothy Brain | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Dorothea Taylor | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Francis E. Pollard | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Victor Alexander | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Edgar and Mignon Castle | [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Edgar and Mignon Castle | [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Mary Pollard | George William Russell | Gandhi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Rosamund Wallis | J. M. Synge | The Tinker’s Wedding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty... | Douglas Herbert Bell | George William Russell | "Shadows and Lights" | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Harry Emerson Fosdick | The Meaning of Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Harry Emerson Fosdick | The Manhood of the Master | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle bec... | Albert John Martin | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |