Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Sir Walter Scott

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottNovels and Tales of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottHistorical Romances of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottNovels and Romances of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottMinstrelsy of the Scottish BorderPrint: Book
1800-1849I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a ...Anne Lister Sir Walter ScottThe Monastery. A romanceUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....Frances Stevenson Sir Walter ScottpoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...William Robertson Nicoll Sir Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear...Philip Gibbs Sir Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walte...John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the g...Charles Robert Maturin Sir Walter Scottcomplete works to 1820Print: Book
1850-1899'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b...Hannah Mitchell Sir Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t...Hannah Mitchell Sir Walter Scott[works]Print: Book
1800-1849?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1823 I read in Scott?s novel of ?Quentin Durward? the prophetic words of Martivalle, ?Can I look forward without w...Charles Knight Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'"The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of the first books that Laura read with absorbed interest. She adored the Master of...Flora Thompson Sir Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'neither had read a romance since, in childhood, they had dipped into the "Waverley Novels" as they appeared in succes...Philip and Emily GosseSir Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: 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 Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Readers of my generation owe a great debt of gratitude to the enterprise of Messrs. Dicks. My first introduction to g...Thomas Okey Sir Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha...Arnold Bennett Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Chess and "Quentin Durward".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Quentin Durward"'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottFortunes of NigelUnknown
1850-1899'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.' John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book

 

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