√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'lines on the death of a general officer in the east indies / ladies monthly museum' 'the muffled drums dull moan /...... | Mary Groom | anon | Lines On The Death Of A General Officer In The East Indies | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, regarding editing of The Convention of Cintra: 'I have alluded to the blasphe... | William Wordsworth and Thomas De Quincey | [Italian deputies] Anon | [address to Buonaparte] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 |
William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 180... | William Wordsworth | anon [working people] | ["half-penny Ballads"] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of p... | Charley | anon | [penny dreadfuls] | Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misr... | William Wordsworth | [A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] Anon | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's... | William Wordsworth | anon | Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup me... | Wordsworth Family | anon | [Recipe for croup medicine] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "a... | Sara Hutchinson | anon | Courier | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Wi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long a... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [morning newspaper] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon | advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures... | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | [inscription on rock] | Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown |
| 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 | anon | review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon. | Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply... | George Gordon Lord Byron | [N. N. A.] anon | [private letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | '[Edgar Wallace recalled] the teacher read aloud "The Arabian Nights". "The colour and beauty of the East stole throug... | Edward Wallace | Anon | Arabian Nights | 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 | anon | The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At la... | Stan Dickens | [anon] | Aristotle's Masterpiece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's ... | Mary Bertenshaw | [anon] | Aristotle's Masterpiece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nea... | M.V, Hughes | anon | A Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss... | James Elroy Flecker | anon | Land and Water | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a vet... | John Pory | Anon | Charter of Virginia Assembly | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Bre... | E. Terry | anon | Middle High German love-lyric | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Bre... | | anon | Middle High German love-lyric | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's]... | Female pupils at Surrey school | anon | The Times (extracts) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Robin Hood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Dick Turpin | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Charles Peace | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | anon | Dick Turpin | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | anon | Three Fingered Jack | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | [anon] | The Holy War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | anon | The Adventures of a Penny | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | anon | Cassell's History of England | 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 | anon | ['twopenny bloods'] | 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 | anon | The Wizard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | anon | [a handbook for vegetarians] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately read a report of the Corn Laws made in 1814 before the house of Commons, one witness says... It came ou... | Robert Sharp | anon | Report on the Corn Laws OR Address to the Two Houses | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of wellington said to be written by B.Constant "un heros froid et med... | Benjamin Newton | anon | Letters written by an eminent persons in the seventeenth century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [anon] | The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses a... | John Byrom | anon | [Verse on Lord Cateret] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | [anon] | [ballads] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | anon | Parismus and Parismenus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | anon | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet, sheet from an exercise book |
| 1850-1899 | '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 | anon | [Deadeye Dick stories] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | anon | Dick Whittington and his Cat | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of a simple thing called "The West Country Clothier" and, notwithstanding the meanness of the l... | Thomas Turner | anon | The West County Clothier | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England ... | Thomas Turner | anon | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign... | Thomas Turner | anon | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of the 5th volume of "Medical Essays and Observations", published at Edinburgh by a society of ... | Thomas Turner | anon | Medical Essays and Observations, revised and published by a society in Edinburgh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by auth... | | Anon | Frederic le Grand | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After I came home, I read part of "The London Magazine" for October, as also a poor empty piece of tautology called "... | Thomas Turner | anon | A Serious Address to the Public, concerning the most probable means of avoiding the dangers of innoculation | |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: "Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charmi... | Henry James | anon | Review of Henry James, Roderick Hudson | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Histories of Jack the Giant Killer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Saint George and the Dragon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Tom Hickathrift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Jack and the Bean Stalk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | History of the Seven Champions | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Fair Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | History of Friar Bacon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Account of the Lancashire witches | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | The witches of the woodlands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Robin Hood's Songs | Print: Book, Broadsheet |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | The Ballad of Chevy Chase | Print: Book, Broadsheet |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | An account of the Inquisition in Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | The Drummer of Tedworth | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Some account of the disturbances at Glenluce | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | anon | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me wit... | Joseph Mayett | anon | Reading made easy in a variety of useful lessons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: a page of ms notes on the first binding page gives nautical instructions 'The course by the Compass From... | William Ferguson | Anon | General treatise of naval trade and commerce, as founded on the laws and statutes of the realm: in which those relating to His Majesty's customs, merchants, matters of ships &c. are particularly considered and treated with due care ? | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbe... | | Anon | Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipment of a frigate to be employed in sailing between London and Calcutta; touching at the Cape of Good Hope; for the conveyance of passengers only | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'music, "Arabian Nights", and Darwin.' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | anon. | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even t... | William Tinsley | anon | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by... | Elizabeth Barrett | [author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anon | History of a Flirt, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre reviews | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre review in The Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free... | Fanny Kemble | Anon | [Sicilian song] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | [superstitious doctoring book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red ... | John Marsh | [anon] | Maria or The Vicarage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended... | John Marsh | [Anon] | The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you | 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 | Anon | Book of Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | anon | Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My master said to me one day, he was surprized that I did not learn to write my own letters, and added, that he was s... | James Lackington | anon | various scraps of writing | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'As to the little knowledge of literature I possess, I acquired that by dint of application. In the beginning I attach... | James Lackington | anon | various on divinity and moral philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at... | Arnold Bennett | Anon | Ugly Duckling | 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 | anon | The Annual Register | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... I took up a London paper, and the first object in it which struck my eye, was the death of Charles Lamb. I felt i... | John Cole | anon | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical... | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Prose Edda, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 16 March 1811: 'I had heard from Lord Stafford, at Lady Spencer's the night before, that the "Sco... | Mary Berry | anon | Review of Mary Berry, ed., Letters of Madame du Deffand | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I have most seriously been house-hunting for you. I saw two bills on doo... | Horace Walpole | anon | bills advertising houses for sale/to let | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 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 | [anon.] | Thousand Nights and One Night, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 21 April 1794: 'I have found on my table a rhapsody in verse on my recovery, so extravag... | Horace Walpole | anon | poem on recovery of Horace Walpole [apparently from illness] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | anon. | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Jean anon. | [tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | anon | Howleglas | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broads... | Gabriel Harvey | anon | Broadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmaceuticals) of John Hester | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the... | John Cole | anon | Wonders of the human body | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Anon | Curios of natural history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.' | John Cole | [Anon] | [suitable readings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the "Times" a ribald song addressed to me.' | Elizabeth Martineau | anon | "ribald" song about Harriet Martineau | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | The season of death | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on an Idiot | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [Translation of an Arabic Ode] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [The Ton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Ode to the closing year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [On Friendship] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines on Home | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | The Dead and the Living [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Resignation | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Journal of an Annuyee | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | Matilde a novel | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | A Highland Salute to the Queen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The Star of Missions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The dead friend | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading an article by a Labour M.P. who wants to harbour refugees. He's all wrong. Good job we haven't got dict... | | anon [A Labour MP] | article | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Looks at cartoon first. "Oh, quite right, you know. It is these people who - I love those two. Yes". Turns to Priestl... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads the front page, turns to the back, looks at the cartoon intently as if trying to understand it; then opens it a... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads part. "This is very interesting". Reads carefully. "Of course it was ridiculous jamming all foreigners into con... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took "Varieties & c" to the Library. I brought the 2nd Volume of the "Minstrel or Anecdotes of Distinguished Person... | Joseph Hunter | Anon | The Minstrel; or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye fifteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I rose at 5 O'clock, and going to a small plantation that overlooked the Jed I learned all I ever knew of English Gra... | Robert White | anon | [English Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand... | Joseph Stamper | [anon] | Guy's Expositor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain o... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott [anon] | review of Emma | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there read... | Samuel Pepys | [anon] | A treatise of taxes and contributions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Inscribed in the book on the front free endpaper:
This book belonged to my father William youngest son of John and C... | William Williams | anon | Poetical description of song birds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to her daughter-in-law Ann, dated 4th June 1818:
"Little Madge (Margaret Elizabeth Haskoll) told me that she h... | Lydia Haskoll | anon | History of Little Goody Two-shoes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The book seems to have been used in an educational context, probably at home. Pencilled crosses, dates and slash marks... | Olive Heath | anon | Preliminary lessons on the history of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on books lent to herself and her siblings, when children, during visits to her uncle Edwards... | Elizabeth Sewell | anon | Arabian Nights' Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach:
'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia] | Print: loose slip of paper |
| 1800-1849 | '"Guy Mannering" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | [review in the Quarterly Review of Scott's Guy Mannering] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some ... | Thomas Carlyle | anon. | [review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [anon] | The Scholar Armed | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] | Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and f... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | Belfast Town & County Almanack | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a frie... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | [novel] | Unknown |
| 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 received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | [anon.] | Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant | 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 | [anon.] | Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey [anon.] | Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish | 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 | [anon.] | Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries | 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 Burke [anon.] | A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord **** | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening' | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'. | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | [anon.] | Rhoda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 plays in the ancient drama' | Mary Shelley | [anon (ed)] | Ancient English Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Flores et Blanche-fleur' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Cleomades et Claremonde' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelone, Fille du Roi de Naples' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 16th. [...] Read I Piffari di Montagna a pamphlet upon the Carbonari.' | Claire Clairmont | anon | I Piffari di montagna, ossia cenno estemporaneo sulla congiura del principe di Canosa, e sopra i carbonari | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 29th. [...] Read the Quarterly. Review of Southey's Life of Wesley [notes several
anecdotes given in t... | Claire Clairmont | anon | review of Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley (1820) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 29th. [...] The following passage is from Thistlewood's Defence
'A few hours hence and I shall be no m... | Claire Clairmont | anon | The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson and Others, for High Treason ... with the Antecedent Proceedings. Taken in short-hand by William Brodie Gurney (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1-3 May 1828:
'Saturday, eight o' clock. Our dinner hour was rather later t... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | 'Review' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843:
'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inc... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Duty and Inclination (volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843:
'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inc... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Duty and Inclination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Anon | Review of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arguments For Judgment To Come | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary to... | Lytton Strachey | anon | advertisement/announcement on racing | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 May 1935: 'Quentin bought an Italian paper & read of [T. E.] Lawrence's death.' | Quentin Bell | anon | report of death of T. E. Lawrence | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie... | James Hogg | anon | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political article entitled 'The Warder' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, L... | Virginia Woolf | anon | account of the Great Fire of London | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of t... | James Lackington | anon [Religious Tract Society] | tracts | Print: tracts |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | anon. | Speculum humanae Salvationis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | anon. | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that th... | Isaac Archer | anon | The Historie of China | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anon. | ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, (anon) 'An Hymne to our Redeemer'.
Copied in spaces between other entries ... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | An Hymne to our Redeemer | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Str... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, London. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous poem entitled 'An Euening Hymn' and beginning 'Now that the Sa... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | An Evening Hymn | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous 'Moral dialogue'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | Moral Dialogue | 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 | anon | History of the Life of Monsieur d'Epernon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Anon | An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Anon | A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the "Spectators" for August 5th and 12th; and you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | anon | Review article; and 'Husbands and Wives'. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c.3 April 1792: '"A soul prepard needs no delays/
The summons come the S... | Robert Southey | anon | [memorial verse] | Print: monument |
| 1700-1799 | 'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal A... | James Boswell and Louisa | [anon.] | Journal Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my trave... | Robert Southey | anon | Address to the major of Nottingham | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I copied these four lines from the hospital at Readi... | Robert Southey | anon | [lines at the Hospital in Reading] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'Forgive egotism if I mention one circumstance which ... | Robert Southey | anon | ['sixpenny history of England'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'I have not yet seen Priestleys reasons for quitting this country. f... | Robert Southey | anon | Review of Joseph Priestley, The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies; A Sermon, Preached at the Gravel Pit Meeting in Hackney, February 28, 1794 | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'I have not yet seen Priestleys reasons for quitting this country. f... | Robert Southey | anon | Reviews of William Belsham's Remarks on the Nature and Necessity of a Parliamentary Reform (1793) and Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-Lunenberg (1793). | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full ... | Arnold Bennett | H Hamer [anon] | Roasted Angels | |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Curious beginning of an alchemistical receipt. “... | Robert Southey | anon | "alchemical receipt" | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | anon | Spanish Ballads | Print: Book |
| 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 | anon | Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | anon | Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'My mornings are devoted to Law; I allow the evening for pleasant... | Robert Southey | anon | German Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 March, 1797: 'We have been here now nearly a month. I read much Law — & find ti... | Robert Southey | anon | Law books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I much want the latter books of Amadis, subsequen... | Robert Southey | anon | Palmerin of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I see Roughs Lorenzino reviewed. I had not expect... | Robert Southey | anon | Review of William Rough, Lorenzini di Medici | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Lights Out, Bayley reads a poem - anonymous. "J'y suis, j'y reste" about the war in Malaya. It is good and comp... | Thomas Kitching | anon. | J'y suis, J'y reste | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Dated Garrow, 1823, is transcribed the traditional Scottish ... | | anon [Trad.] | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'A Conservative Song, to the tune of "There... | | Anon. Traditional | A Conservative Song | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'These very pretty rhymes were written in the times of Eliza... | | anon [Traditional] | The Old and Young Courtier | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Ballad "The old English Gentleman" sung by... | | anon [Traditional] | The Old English Gentleman | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article i... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | Review of 'German Romance' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.' | John Ruskin | anon | Dorothea Trudel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.' | John Ruskin | anon | Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".' | John Ruskin | anon | History of Fair Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines entitled ‘Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks... | Catherine Austen | anon | Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of Lines by a Lady at a Ball', beginning 'So, Sir, y... | Catherine Austen | anon | Lines by a Lady at a Ball | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines beginning 'Black eyes may dazzle at a ball'. | Catherine Austen | anon | Black eyes and Blue eyes | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ursula Unwin | anon. | Everyman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ernest E. Unwin | anon. | York Miracle Cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Alfred Rawlings | Anon. | Migrations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled "Fascists at Olympia", which contained statements from... | Vera Brittain | anon | Fascists at Olympia | |
| 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 | [anon. member of XII Book Club] | Scandalous Affair, A | Manuscript: Unknown |