Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Williams

 

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1800-1849William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your le...William Wordsworth Helen Maria WilliamsThe Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta...Francis Place WilliamsonEuclidPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that ...Charlotte Bronte William Smith Williamsletter to Charlotte BronteManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath...Charlotte Bronte William Smith WilliamsletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath...Emily Bronte William Smith WilliamsletterManuscript: Letter
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 Williamswork/s on Eastern religionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dr...John Cole WilliamsonA Journal of a naturalistPrint: 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 WilliamsSketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towrds the Close of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: 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 Williamsvarious booksPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read most of day. I am reading "Dandelion Days", and love it. I must get some more of the Henry Williamson books.'Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonDandelion DaysPrint: 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 Henry WilliamsonBeautiful Years, ThePrint: 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 Henry WilliamsonSalar the SalmonPrint: 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 Henry WilliamsonDream of Fair Women, ThePrint: 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 Henry WilliamsonStar-born, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems...Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...James Lackington WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Monier Williams'George Eliot [pseud] Monier Monier Williams[presumably work on Sanskrit]Print: Book
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1600-1699
Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey Sir Roger WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward WilliamsPoems, Lyric and PastoralPrint: Book
1700-1799'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is ...Joseph Hunter Helen Maria WilliamsA Tour in SwitzerlandPrint: 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 WilliamsA Tour in SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.'H WilliamsonNorfolk FarmPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote ...Samuel Pepys Sir Joseph WilliamsonOxford GazettePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Letter 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 WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'Mary Shelley Edward WilliamsPromise, The; or, a Year, a Month, and a DayManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: 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 WilliamsOde on the Peace, AnPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first Robert Southey Helen Maria WilliamsLetters from FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali...Isaac D'Israeli Helen Maria WilliamsNarrative of Events in France in 1815Print: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali...Isaac D'Israeli Helen Maria WilliamsNarrative of Events in France in 1815Print: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 March 1754:] 'Who is that Miss Nanny Williams who has published a pretty co...Thomas Edwards Anna Williamsverses addressed to Samuel RichardsonPrint: Serial / periodical

 

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