Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti...Margaret Oliphant unknownPeasant LifePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.Jane Austen unknown[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''.Humphry Repton unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]La danse des mortsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Declaration of PrinciplesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Sammlung vorzuglich schoner Gedichte...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is besi...Thomas De Quincey unknown[Greek book]Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to expre...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownMemoir of Frederick and Margaret KlopstockPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John...William Wordsworth unknown[newpapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate f...William Wordsworth unknown[magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799: '[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seeme...Amos Cottle unknownEdda Soemundar hinns FrodaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 11 May 1808: 'Would you believe it we too had dreams about Loch Kettrine when we ...Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[advertisement]Print: Advertisement
1800-1849William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a ...William Wordsworth unknown[magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what...John Wordsworth unknownHistory of EnglandPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Statement of juvenile offender: "When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportuni...J.H. [unknown][books about voyages]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchi...Sara Hutchinson unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet...William Wordsworth unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordswort...William Wordsworth unknownProceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ...
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, nam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph of Josias Franklin and wifeUnknown
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, nam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph of Benjamin FranklinUnknown
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, nam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph "taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York"Unknown
1800-1849'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Con...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownTale Imitated from GowerUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think ...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and L...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[epigram on J. W. Ward]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[epigram on J. W. Ward]Unknown
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making so...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownPersian TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my l...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to l...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** ...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Italian]Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, an...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into t...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some...Richard Sharp unknown[poster advertising a debate on Byron and Scott]Print: Advertisement, Poster
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and tol...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownAnti-ByronUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napo...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampo...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[ministerial gazettes]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well ...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownAnti-ByronManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a fore...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Roman History]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends t...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[article]Unknown
1800-1849Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met w...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[history book]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to f...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepte...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter ...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly --...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[paper on the Methodists]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Siste...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown"book treating of the Rhine"Print: Book
1800-1849Byron 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 unknown"Siege of Zara"Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometim...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned ov...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- d...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lom...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[various books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lou...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not wr...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particu...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in...Charles 2nd Earl Grey unknownCorrespondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of MoiraManuscript: LetterUnknown
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in...William Wyndham Lord Grenville unknownCorrespondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of MoiraManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ev...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[reviews]Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
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 [unknown][political history]Print: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh...Elizabeth Blackburn [unknown][Ancient Greek literature]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 17 May 1800: 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Bal...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 1 June 1800: ' ... a sweet mild morning. Read Ballads; went to church.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 4 June 1800: 'I walked to the lake-side in the morning, took up plant...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownBalladsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 6 June 1800: 'Sate out of doors reading the whole afternoon...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 31 July 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Cole...Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 December 1800: 'A fine morning. I read.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 30 November 1801: '[after walk with William Wordsworth and Mary Hutchins...Wordsworth Family unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochle...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownLife of Michael BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 14 December 1801: 'Sate by the fire in the evening reading.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 February, 1802: 'I read the story of [?] in Wanly [?].'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a li...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William b...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownLife of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: '[after going on walk] I got tea when I reached home,...Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[German text/s]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 February, 1802: 'I got tea when I reached home [after walk], and then...Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[German text/s]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: '... after dinner read German Grammar.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner W...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner W...William Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'I read German after my return [from walk] till tea time.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 March 1802: 'Read a little German, got my dinner.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a litt...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 March 1802: ' After tea I read to William that account of the littl...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'After dinner we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth] made...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'After dinner ... I read German ...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: 'I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to ...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 May 1802, 'When we came in [from evening walk to Tail End] we found ...William and Dorothy Wordsworth unknownReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'Read in the Review.'William and Dorothy Wordsworth unknownReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings o...William and Dorothy Wordsworth unknownLife of John LoganPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbr...[Miss] Newton unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899' ... when stuck in '" dismal dirty inn at Halifax" in Yorkshire during his lecture tour in 1857, ... [Thackeray] made...William Makepeace Thackeray unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899Noted by 17-year-old Alice Thompson in her diary: 'I have been reading Fatima and I don't quite think I know what love...Alice Thompson unknownFatimaUnknown
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...questionaire respondent [unknown][basic economics textbook]Print: Book
[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...questionaire respondent [unknown][various history and biography]Print: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news...Allen Clark [unknown][physiology textbooks]Print: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ...Edna Bold [unknown][medical book]Print: Book
1850-1899'In "Where Love and Friendship Dwelt" (1944), Marie Belloc remembered of her time as literary correspondent in late 18...Marie Belloc unknownContemporary French novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began s...Mrs Humphrey Ward unknown[Greek text/s]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 [unknown][reports on education in Prussia]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][romantic fiction]Print: Unknown
1850-1899Diary of Wilfrid Blunt, 22 June 1894: ' ... gave a dinner at Mount Street to Lady Granby, Lucy Smith, [Constant] d'Est...Wilfrid Blunt and guests unknownunknownUnknown
'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'Walter Besant [unknown][American literature]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conver...May Sinclair unknownarticlePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of... unknownPrincess NovelettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in th...Willie Wilson unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant unknownReview of Adam BedePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & t...Katherine Mansfield [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'.Katherine Mansfield unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities....Mark Grossek [unknown][old plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of ...Ethel Mannin [unknown][home medical books]Print: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...Leslie Stephen unknown[French novels]Print: Book
1800-184919/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior ...Amelia Opie unknownLife of Sarah MartinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all ...Amelia Opie unknown[moral tales]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li...William Gallacher [unknown][children's comics]Print: Serial / periodical
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 [unknown][school stories from The Captain]Print: Book
1900-1945'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well...George Scott [unknown][boys' weeklies]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro... [unknown][travel books]Print: Book
1900-1945'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sour...Arnold Bennett unknownVictoria History of the PotteriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dora Montefiore, sent to Holloway [as suffragette] in October 1906, recalls the decor of her cell: "On the shelf were...Dora Montefiore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history...Harry Lauder [unknown][American History]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][history]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][biblical criticism]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][treatises on algebra and geometry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][Sunday School prize books]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... [unknown][detective thrillers]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... [unknown][Western novels]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 [unknown][Western novels]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 [unknown][detective thrillers]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 [unknown][children's books]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 [unknown][travel books, including some on Tibet]Print: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted...Margaret Wharton [unknown][account of Bounty mutiny]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...Thomas Babington Macaulay unknownHistory of James IPrint: 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 [unknown][Life of Scott]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 [unknown][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...he read widely about working-class life in the district.'Arnold Bennett unknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a ...Faith Gray [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...Leslie Paul [unknown]John O' London'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal...Bernard Kops [unknown][Russian literature]Print: Book
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the ...Lucy Maud Montgomery unknownThe Honey Stew of the Countess BerthaPrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. Sh...Lucy Maud Montgomery unknownThe Memoir of Anzonetta PetersPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I ...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good ...Henry James unknownFrench textsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so tha...Henry James unknownvarious works (dealing with Innsbruck)Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I...Henry James unknown"lightish books"Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very...Henry James unknownItalian textsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful an... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][French pocket dictionary]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with m...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the morni...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: " ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth yo...Henry James unknown"dullish books"Print: Book
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... [unknown][prayer book]Print: Book
1850-1899'I was fond of reading when at home, but we had not an abundance of books; so as soon as I settled at Notting Hill, I ...William Tinsley [unknown][various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have almost finished "The Surgeon's Log". The first fiction book of this term!'Hilary Spalding unknownSurgeon's Log, 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 unknownPenguin Parade 4Print: 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 unknownCasterton PapersPrint: 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 unknownPleasure of your Company, 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 UnknownTeach yourself to ThinkPrint: 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 unknownNine GhostsPrint: 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 unknownThe SpecialistPrint: 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 unknownFirst Year OutPrint: 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 unknownVelvet Deer, ThePrint: 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 unknownActor, Soldier, PoetPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.' Arnold Bennett unknownOld Wives' Tale, TheManuscript: Sheet, typescript film scenario
1850-1899'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown'Kestner letters'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them. They ar...Hilary Spalding unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'Hilary Spalding unknownPeople's Government, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot,...Hilary Spalding unknown["silly school stories"]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 unknownPeople and PlacesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 13 February 1877: "I am writing this in the beautiful great library of the Athenaeum C... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] unknownHamburgische BriefePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][dramatists' works]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 [unknown][Roman History]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but y...Henry James unknown[extracted texts]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 [unknown]The History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read h...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
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?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progre...Joseph Mayett [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a ...Joseph Mayett [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover ...Thomas Carter [unknown][stories]Print: Book
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'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for...Thomas Carter [unknown]The Assembly's CatechismPrint: 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 fall i...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: 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 [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West...George Eliot (pseud) unknownThe Lover's SeatPrint: Book
1800-1849'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inne...Thomas Carter [unknown][unknown]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 [unknown][volumes by the British Essayists]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory noti...Henry James unknownreview of Barrett Wendell's critical study of ShakespearePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s...William Henry Davies unknownFreddie's FriendPrint: Book
1850-1899[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s...William Henry Davies unknownLittle Billie's ButtonPrint: Book
1850-1899[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s...William Henry Davies unknownSally's SacrificePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediatel...Henry James unknownarticle on ZolaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in m...Thomas Carter [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown[Life of Francois de Sales]Print: Book
1900-1945Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52: 'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], ...Henry James and John Buchan unknownByron family papersUnknown
1900-1945Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in ...Henry James unknown"the Green Book"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 [unknown]Letters on the Marriage StatePrint: 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 [unknown][History of the recent wars]Print: Book
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...Thomas Catling [unknown]The lives of the StoicsPrint: Book
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...Thomas Catling [unknown][unknown various titles]Print: Book
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?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men...Daniel Bamford [unknown][theological works]Print: Unknown
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...Samuel Bamford [unknown][works on travel and antiquities]Print: Book
1800-1849'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto...Thomas Carter [unknown]Life of General WashingtonPrint: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila...Samuel Bailey [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila...Thomas Burt [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma...Thomas Burt [unknown][theological magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ...Fanny Kemble unknownGerman fablePrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselve...Fanny Kemble unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my Germa...Fanny Kemble unknownGerman text/sPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ...John Marsh [unknown]Life of Pope Sixtus VPrint: Book
1700-1799'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ...John Marsh [unknown]Life of Pope Sixtus VPrint: Book
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'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa...Elizabeth Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my nov...John Marsh [unknown][a novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use.....Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice o...William Thom [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of...Frances Burney unknown[sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he le...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1900-1945[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Dap...Hilary Spalding unknownSquinency WortPrint: 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 UnknownBackground to the Life of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious tracts]Print: Book, Broadsheet, tracts
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Maga...James Glass Bertram [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag...James Glass Bertram [unknown][various English periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while f...George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLe Moyen Age IllustrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[article in the Athenaeum]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[article in the National]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[article on Mormons in Westminster Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownArchivo StoricoPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Nerli'.George Eliot unknownNerliPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Canti CarnascialeschiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][chronicle of conquest of the Morea]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[books on medieval Greece]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[English history in reign of George III]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'.Felicia Hemans unknownMemoir of the Queen of PrussiaPrint: Unknown
1700-1799?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ...James Lackington unknown[English poets]Print: Book
1700-1799?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ...James Lackington unknownVariousPrint: Book
1700-1799?I have also read most of our best plays.? James Lackington unknownvarious English playsPrint: Book
1700-1799'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me...James Lackington unknownvariousUnknown
1700-1799?I had such good eyes, that I often read by the light of the moon, as my master would never permit me to take a candle...James Lackington unknownvariousPrint: Book
1700-1799'We all worked very hard, particularly Mr John Jones and me, in order to get money to purchase books; But what we want...James Lackington unknownvariousPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [William Lamb] grew so out of spirits that he quite cried--as women do & has just recovered his spirites--however ...William Lamb unknown[a Greek play]Unknown
1850-1899'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improv...Arnold Bennett unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st...Lady Caroline Lamb unknownShadows in the WaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st...Lady Caroline Lamb unknown[chinese story]Print: Book
1850-1899[Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the ...Arnold Bennett unknownvariousPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, Journal, Friday 9 April [Good Friday] 1784: 'In the evening [...] To the Academy of Arcadians, which was a...Mary Berry unknownSonnets on the Passion of ChristUnknown
1850-1899'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'.Elizabeth Gaskell unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[English History and Law]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[works on music and acoustics]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[books on Astronomical Geography]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLos Judios en EspanaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownIsisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] unknownFirst PrinciplesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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.] unknown[philology books]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[Italian story]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac...George Eliot [pseud.] unknownSpectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.George Henry Lewes [unknown]SeraphimePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][books on plants]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Ancient GeographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Vegetable World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read about Fourier and Owen'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Encyclopaedia re medical colleges]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] unknown[Life of or by William Cullen]Print: Book
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Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a...The Honourable Caroline Howe unknownClassical Greek textsPrint: Book
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Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a...The Honourable Caroline Howe unknownLatin textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknown[Greek]Unknown
1850-1899'unable to read anything except "Times".'George Eliot [pseud] unknownTimes, ThePrint: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read on the colour-sense'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[on colour sense]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Craster letter received'.. John Cole unknownletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Day wet - read'.John Cole unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849'In this month read Poems by one of the authors and Poems for youth. By a family circle.'John Cole unknown[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...Thomas Carter [unknown]The GravePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...Thomas Carter [unknown]The MinstrelPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'George Eliot [pseud] unknownHebrew textsPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Algebra]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Jewish chronicles]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I liked the Athenaeum on Chartism much. Thank you for sending it. One has great pleasure in reading the Athenaeum - t...Harriet Martineau unknownAthenaeum [review of Carlyle's Chartism]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas ...Mary Berry unknownThe Tale of the TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 February 1809: 'This morning I went to the [Middle] Temple to Mr. Lysons', to see some very an...Mary Berry unknown[C14th-C15th manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1809: 'In the evening read aloud the account of General Moore's campaign in Spain [make...Mary Berry unknownaccount of military campaign in SpainUnknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very live...Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales unknown[books of engravings]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read aloud to Jane.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read all evening.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read I don't know what.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown][Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown]Daily News (comment on Matthew Arnold)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown]The Times (comment on Matthew Arnold)Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 12 July 1791: ' Mr. Batt [...] dined with me yesterday, and stayed till after breakfast ...Horace Walpole unknownreminiscencesUnknown
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown][30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 26 February 1812: 'The morning at Devonshire House, where I found the Duke in his library with th...The Duke of Devonshire, Marquis Douglas, and George Neville unknownbooksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read all evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in the greek grammar'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read and work in the evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in the morning and work'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in the Greek grammar'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little in the Greek grammar'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Work and read in the evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write and read'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 27 July 1818: 'Went with Lord Hardwick to see the MSS. which have been offered for sale to Sir Ch...Mary Berry and Lord Hardwicke unknownMS papers relating to Peace of UtrechtManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 23 September 1824, from Edinburgh: 'Went with Mr. and Mrs. Davenport to [...] the Advocate's Libr...Mary Berry unknownMS lettersManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'read in the greek grammar'.Mary Godwin unknown[greek grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to 'a friend at Paris,' October, 1835: 'I have read with much attention the "notice" on the life of M. Gout...Mary Berry unknownNotice on life of M. GouthierPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the St...Lord Francis Jeffrey unknownCatalogue of Strawberry Hill collectionsPrint: Book, catalogue
1800-1849'Evening - suitable readings'.John Cole unknown['suitable readings']Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Observing a new entrance gate, inscribed Jesus' Hospital [underlined], we were invited to enter the gate, and discove...John Cole unknown[Inscription over entrance gate]Print: Incription on gate
1500-1599In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philolo...Gabriel Harvey unknownInstitutesPrint: Book
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'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and...Gabriel Harvey unknownSpanish grammarsPrint: Book
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'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and...Gabriel Harvey unknownFrench grammarsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [.....Harriet Martineau unknown[Books on logic]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [.....Harriet Martineau unknown[Books on rhetoric]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [.....Harriet Martineau unknown[History books]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his professi...Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) unknown[Italian prose texts]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his professi...Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) unknown[Italian poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud f...Harriet Martineau unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud f... unknown[Classical texts]Print: Book
1800-1849'During the period of the writing of the three Series, -- the Political Economy, Taxation, and Poor-laws -- I never re...Harriet Martineau unknown[Texts on American geography and politics]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the "Quarterly Review" containing ...Harriet Martineau unknown[Article attacking Harriet Martineau]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtaine...Harriet Martineau unknown[Blue-book on "Colonization"]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some descriptions of West Indies.'John Cole [unknown][descriptions of the West Indies]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".'John Cole [unknown][Account of the Tailor Bird]Print: Book
1800-1849'[The eldest Hallam daughter] died [...] while her mother was reading to her. She exclaimed "Stop!" and was dead with... unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ...Harriet Martineau unknowntravel writingPrint: Unknown
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793 'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since...Elizabeth Smith [unknown]Den golden spiegelPrint: Book
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) w...Harriet Martineau unknown[Article on St. Domingo]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on inspiration for an ultimately abandoned novel: 'There was a police report, during that winter [?...Harriet Martineau unknown[Police report]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into...Harriet Martineau unknownunknownPrint: Book
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'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about...Sarah Churchill [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][old-fashioned theological works]Print: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][early Methodist magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][cookery books]Print: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][tales of murder and robbery]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: 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 [unknown]Adam's First WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Well, I think Civil Defence is a marvellous racket. It's given me the spare time I've been wanting for years?I've don...[M35B] Anon unknownunknown ["solid reading"]Unknown
1850-1899'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant ...Hannah Mitchell [unknown-probably various contributors][poems in newspaper]Print: Newspaper
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 [unknown][poetry]Print: 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 [unknown][history]Print: Book
1900-1945'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." T...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945Sunday, Feb 4 (1940) 'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading... [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'I'm getting on in age, I want light reading. You understand that, don't you? I don't want heavy reading. I don't want... unknown[light readings]Print: Book
1900-1945'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of ... [unknown][life of Joan of Arc]Print: Book
1900-1945'1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arriv... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... [unknown][crime novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... [unknown]Pitman's bookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chai... [unknown][pamphlet]
1900-1945'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consul... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'About 10.30 p.m. I took her for some refreshment, we talked of books, she said she was reading "A Guide to Philosophy... [unknown]A Guide to philosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of c...Edmund Gosse [unknown][sensational novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'This landlord was new to the game and took me to see how he was studying to be master of it. He was busy reading th... unknownLicensed houses and their managementPrint: Book
1900-1945'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thin... [unknown]Carpentier's lifePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper
1900-1945'When one has finished reading through this pamphlet one comes to the inevit- able conclusion that there is absolutel... [unknown][pamphlet]
1800-1849?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in r...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown][copy books]Manuscript: Copy Books
1800-1849'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it beca...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown]Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?'Ellen [unknown]SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smother...Miss V [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Whereas Kay was always trying to read or knit when she sat down, Louise is doing nothing at all, and so can be quite ...Kay [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very... [unknown][English novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company"... [unknown]Low CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and re... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was th... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [unknown]Poesie di OssianPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coron... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that...Joseph Banks [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somew... [unknown][news bulletin]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an h... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.' [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made ... [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, w... [unknown][newspaper?]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthd... [unknown][horoscopes]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words r... [unknown]Long ago!Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in ...John Cole [unknown]Royal Academy CataloguePrint: Book
1800-1849'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called awa...John Cole [unknown][album]Print: Book
1800-1849'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts...John Cole [unknown authors][various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon rea...John Cole [unknown][sermons]Print: Book
1700-1799'Every Sunday after breakfast the Bishop of Norwich reads to their Royal Highnesses a practical explanation of the pri...Prince George [unknown][explanation of the principles of the Christian religion]Print: Book
1900-1945'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but not... [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Well, yes, but not good reading. I only read to pass the time away, - any old thing; any time when I happen to be stu... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'25 C was reading a book, waiting to be served, and reading with concentration, both elbows on table, head between han... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th...Flora Thompson [unknown]His Ice QueenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's condit... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Detective stories and thrillers are by far the most numerous, in fact at the moment are all the fiction I seem to rea... [unknown][detective novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [unknown]Guide to EdinburghPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [unknown][books on James IV]Print: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Have breakfast (next real interval is tea time, so breakfast includes prayers, reading and any urgent letters - this ... [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'I was reading the other day the story of an air flight. They had a long and dangerous journey to undertake, and befor... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunc... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][unknown - on Higher criticism]Print: Unknown, cuttings
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][essay on rifling]Print: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ...Jem Parsons [unknown]The adventures of a lousePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ...Jem Parsons [unknown]Roslin CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ...Jem Parsons [unknown][book of prayers]Print: Book
1900-1945'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with t... [unknown]Arise to conquerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than... [unknown][works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thrill... [unknown][a thriller]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1800-1849'It is now half past twelve, & having heard Lizzy [JA's niece] read, I am moved down into the Library for the sake of ...Lizzy Knight unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical SocietyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]The Conduct of the British Government towards the Church of England in the West India ColoniesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Eikon BasilikePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Analysis of the Report of a CommitteePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]The Age. A Poem. In eight books.Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Acta Seminarii Regii et Societatis Philologicae LiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Carmina Illustrium Poetarum ItalorumPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]A Harmonie upon the Three EvangelistsPrint: Book
1900-1945'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sit... unknown[book]Print: Book
1900-1945'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sit... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out...Alexander Monro [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'We got the new catalogue from Library, The number of subscribers 118, there are near 2400 Books. [In Margin] Printed ...Joseph Hunter [unknown][Catalogue of the Sheffield Subscription Library]
1700-1799'Took [the] "Answer to Wilberforce" to the Chapel Library & brought "The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797, Being...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797Print: Book
1700-1799'Wrote out of the "Spirit of the Public Journals" "Washing Day", a poem in blank verse; originally printed in the "Mon...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'When I brought the "Spirit of the Journals", I did not think that it would have contributed anything towards the acco...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Wrote also out of the "Spirit of the Journals" "a hymn for the fast day" by Captain Norrice on Foxe's Birthday.'Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took the "Spirit of the Journals" to the Chapel Library [...] there are no less than 101 Epigrams on Messrs Pitt & Du...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasure of Memory"; thought less of the pape...William Windham [unknown]Spanish GrammarPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Looked into "Philosophical Transactions" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon...William Windham [unknown]Philosophical Transactions of the Royal SocietyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the ... unknownInsanity BirPrint: Book
1700-1799'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the begin...Benjamin Shaw [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading The Case for Federal Union, one of the excellent Penguin Series. The prospect of Union seems to be remoter ev... unknownThe case for federal unionPrint: Book
1800-1849'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mothe...Robert White [unknown]'a penny history'
1800-1849'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours ...Robert White [unknown]'poetry and border ballads'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a ...John Clare unknownThe Struggles of a Senior WranglerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught...Edmund Gosse [unknown][Latin Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, contai...Edmund Gosse [unknown][volume of engravings]Print: Book
1850-1899BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when rea...Victoria of Prussia [unknown]The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest religPrint: Book
1700-1799The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately DeceasedPrint: Book
1700-1799an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil...Frances Hamilton [unknown]The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present TimePrint: Book
1700-1799content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h...Frances Hamilton [unknown]A Letter to Earl Stanhope
1700-1799Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the GreatPrint: Book
1850-1899'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant di...Edwin Muir [unknown][volume about theological debate]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown][school books]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown]Sunday StoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita...Edwin Muir [unknown][story]Print: Unknown
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'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but ...Edwin Muir [unknown][book on Wallace and Bruce]Print: Book
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'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac is...Edwin Muir [unknown][story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands]Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
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'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Bronco BillPrint: Serial / periodical
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'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Jack WrightPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm...Norman Nicholson [unknown]History of the World WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm...John Slater [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'Norman Nicholson [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb...Norman Nicholson [unknown][books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]Print: Book
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'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Penny DreadfulsPrint: Serial / periodical
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'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Fri...Joseph Stamper [unknown]How to make friends and influence peoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" ...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]Print: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" ...Albert Battiscombe [unknown]PneumaticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual l...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Manuscript: Graffito
1850-1899'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I coul...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Print: Advertisement, Poster
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'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... [unknown]Sylvestre SoundPrint: Book
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'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... [unknown]SomnambulistPrint: Book
1900-1945'...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves an...Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came t...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Young People's First Book of TreesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would su...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][book on pneumatics]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.' Albert Battiscombe [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book
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'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
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'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" ...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Quain's AnatomyPrint: Book
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'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One ...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book
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'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks w...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book
1850-1899'Commenced work again to day in earnest - read some of the [following page missing]' Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'I am going to try & commence work again, having done nothing since entering the sick list, except read a few novels a...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a good deal during the day, and worked a Couple of hours at French.'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2Print: Book
1600-1699'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]The humble address and hearty desires of the gentlemen, ministers and free-holders of the county of Northampton, presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, at his arrival at Northampton January, 24, 1659Print: Broadsheet
1600-1699'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de RomaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've been reading about miners' food difficulties. Isn't it disgusting-we starve the men who do one of the most impor... unknownreport on miners' conditionsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I don't really believe in any superstitions. Sitting down 13 at a table would never worry me in the slightest. Howeve... unknownhoroscopePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.'Wayneman Birch [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s....Samuel Pepys [unknown]Masse BookPrint: Book
1600-1699'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][law book?]Print: Book
1600-1699'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfac...Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicidesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicidesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'(I am reading from her reply): "I hope I shall remember to go Church and thank God for our victory and our safety. I ... unknownletter about the post-war worldManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'He works from 2 to 10,and about 9 .he always goes to the lavatory. He was sitting there reading "Aero" when the siren... UnknownCaptain Aero ComicPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Every night when I go home I swear there are not more than three English people on the bus. The rudeness of them. A w... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'A fortnight in London in June-July 1940, recuperating from Oxford Univ. Finals, I most clearly remember summer evenin... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Anyhow, their wives are being sent away. Mosley and his wife shouldn't be allowed to live together, but I suppose the... unknownarticle about Oswald MosleyPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1600-1699''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for...anon [unknown]A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purposePrint: Handbill
1600-1699'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][French Romances]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and rea...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Good books]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home - I to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then to reading and at night to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'And then I up to my chamber to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read an Acct of the celebration of the Games in the Colloseum at Rome.'John Cole unknown[Account of the Games in the Colosseum at Rome]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a...John Cole unknownSermonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'John Cole unknownSt Limerick's BellsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'John Cole unknownThe word we have not seenPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Except sometimes when my wife sits on the arm of my chair when I am reading, and proceeds to perform on my own nails,... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I read more-not so much of the paper as light books and escapist stuff. I listen to the radio about the same.' unknown[light books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read more as I spend more time at home. Also I read fewer political works and more fiction.' unknown[light books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography... unknown[light reading]Print: Book
1900-1945'I now very rarely go out in the evening, mainly on account of wife and family; spend more time reading and playing in... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'In common with thousands of other people I have been doing knitting during the raids. In normal times I never have ti... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T...Samuel Pepys [unknown][chancery Bill drawn against Trice]Manuscript: Sheet
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 [unknown][unknown- little but shrewd piece]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of K. James and K. CharlesPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaw...John Cole unknownAnnouncements of Lectures on GeologyPrint: Poster
1800-1849'Read the extraordinary Acct of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V.'John Cole unknown[Account of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V]Print: Book
1900-1945'On the whole in these casual ventures I go no further than about 2/6 a book, and most of my reading comes from such e... unknown[cheap editions of books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I like light reading - something to occupy my mind so that I can knit and read at the same time - something that I c... unknown[light reading]Print: Book
1900-1945'I don't mind any author, so long as it's a genuine western story. I always read purely western, because they're more ... unknown[western stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'My husband usually buys the penguin books. They're cheap and easy to carry about and afterwards he gives them away to... unknown[detective fiction]Print: Book
1900-1945'The girl has joined the library. She's a big reader. Reads about 2 books a week. She's begun to start bringing home "... unknown["love" stories]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w...Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...Print: Unknown
1600-1699'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w...Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Co...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Writ]Unknown
1600-1699'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted...Samuel Pepys [unknown][playbill]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1600-1699'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Most of the books I choose from the free library are for the wife. I cast my eye over the books vaguely searching for... unknownsynopsis of bookPrint: 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 unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading now "Time is the Spur". No, I don't know whom it is by. I was recommended to it by a friend, It's very g... unknownTime is the SpurPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1600-1699'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Navy precedentsPrint: Book
1600-1699'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comission...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... unknownElizabeth of BohemiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lately I've been reading books about China and Russia. I figure it out this way: I read the newspapers and meet diffe... unknown[books about China and Russia]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of qualityPrint: Book
1900-1945'For light reading I like biography and travel - I see there are one or two out about the South Seas that should be in... unknown[biography and travel]Print: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... unknownHeavenly TrouserPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... unknownMy Son AbsalomPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... unknown[Travel books]Print: Book
1900-1945'"Happy World" is a very charming description of the best bits of the old landed way of life. The race as a whole seem... unknownHappy WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since the war began I have read less because my working hours have been lengthened and ARP duties and various social ... unknown[political and social books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read less now than before the war, owing to pressure of work - of a mental nature - and consequently prefer to spen... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since the war began I have read less, chiefly because I am more tired and have less time. I never read until bed-time... unknown[lighter literature]Print: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Statute book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to read a little;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the ...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lat...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books on timber measuring and tides]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
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 [unknown][vowes]Unknown
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 [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the ...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night f...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And s...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's lo...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she wa...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown - recipes]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][proclamation]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a p...Samuel Pepys [unknown][bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]Print: Handbill
1600-1699'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a foo...Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] [unknown][anatomy of the body]Print: Book
1600-1699'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hast...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Arithmetic books]Print: Book
1600-1699'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant...Samuel Pepys [unknown][on the globes]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very pretti...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books an...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, reading all the way a good book;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][lecture on the globes]Print: Book
1800-1849?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one m...Charles Dickens unknownsubmissions to Bentley's MiscellanyManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Dick TurpinPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Spring-heeled JackPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Claude DuvalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Edith the CaptivePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Edith HeronPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books about the Navy]Unknown
1600-1699'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][plays]Print: Book
1600-1699'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [probably]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to s...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of "Lectures on the Bible and li...Elizabeth Kemble unknownLectures on the Bible and liturgyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.'Thomas Cape unknown[report on trial]Print: Newspaper
1600-1699She read saints' lives and was 'as it were enflamed with a desire of imitating them'. Her needlework was always accomp...Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury unknown[spiritual books]Print: Book
1600-1699The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places ...anon [a boy] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, he...Samuel Pepys [unknown][copy of verses]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][a play]Print: Book
1600-1699'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but...Samuel Pepys [unknown][parliamentary bill]
1600-1699'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book about painting]Print: Book
1700-1799'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".'Agathe Wynne [unknown]L'Ami des EnfantsPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an emp...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknown[dictionaries]Print: Book
1700-1799'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Sunday, 31st January, Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry. A rubber of whist.' Gerald Moore unknown[humorous poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on ...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I stayed in bed till 4 oclock this afternoon the sermon was read after dinner. It was fine but a little too strong'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mamma suffers much and was obliged to go to bed after dinner so Mr de Regis read the sermon which was on the [Mr] de Regis [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I did not hear much of the sermon today, it was on Apathy for whilst it was being read the children...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Sermon was read this evening: very fine but the praises of the king are too strong'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The sermon that we read was on the Passion and even finer than the last'.Eugenia Wynne and others [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Friday 30th July. Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systemat...Gerald Moore unknown[Economics textbook]Print: Book
1900-1945'Monday 2nd August. We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some mu...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper Mde. de Bombelles read 'Le Philanthrope' which is as amusing as possible'. [Madame] de Bombelles unknownLe PhilanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 4th October ?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.' Gerald Moore unknownThe Golden GloryPrint: Book
1850-1899'From this time [7pm] till nine o'clock, the prisoners are allowed to read such books as they may have obtained from t...prisoners at Pentonville prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their ce...anon [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it int...anon [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899Inspection of the cells of the women in separate confinement: 'we found some working, and others reading, but none, st...prisoners in separate confinement at Brixton Prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899Inspection of the East Wing between 8:30pm and time of retirement: 'with their little wooden seats [they] placed thems...prisoners in East Wing at Brixton Prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...anon [unknown]Family Quarrel - an humble storyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899The infirmary: 'Some of the men were in bed and sitting up reading, and others were lying down, looking very ill.'prisoners in the infirmary at Millbank [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we w...anon [unknown][French and German language books]Print: Book
1850-1899'A few of the men were reading, and never raised their eyes'prisoners at Coldbath Fields [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which w...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spok...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blo...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and co...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time: 'Those who are left behind ...prisoners at Coldbath Fields [unknown][Religious Tracts]Print: Book
1850-1899'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. ...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison: 'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea...anon [unknown][lesson: either Bible or school textbook]Print: Book
1850-1899Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth: 'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the ...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Juvenile schoolroom at Holloway Prison: 'Mr Barre, the teacher, [was] busy with a class of boys, who were reading the...juvenile male prisoners at Holloway [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw ...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his t...anon [unknown][manuscripts]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells: 'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servi...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknown[history]Unknown
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Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very ...Jane Edwards unknownNovelsPrint: Book
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Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally ver...Jane Edwards unknown[Texts on history]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can ...Jane Sewell unknownHistory of MontezumaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home: 'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In th...Elizabeth Sewell unknown[Story]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight: 'When my regular lesson...Elizabeth Sewell unknownFrench idiomsUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell unknown[Italian history of the Venetian Doges]Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell unknownSpanish grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell unknownSpanish dictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell unknown[Texts on botany]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me re...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown]Rudolph of WertenbergPrint: Book
1700-1799'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partr...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownArabian TalesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain o...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I b...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the pr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][book on China]Print: Book
1900-1945'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown- various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Bampton lecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Gifford lecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][speeches]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed... [unknown][Henry VIII]Print: Book
1900-1945'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate se...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownArticle on the JesuitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lives of the Fathers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of Christ]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of St Paul]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][studies on the Apostles]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue;...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]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?] [unknown][Greek Philosophy]Print: Book
1800-1849'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a...Thomas Carlyle unknown["black-letter poems"]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu...Jane Bailie Welsh Unknown[Tragedies]Print: Book
1800-1849'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stag...John Mitchel [unknown][Abyssinia]Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownAn Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume)Print: Book
1850-1899'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously...John Mitchel [unknown]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknown['books of note']Print: Book
1800-1849'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he...Betsey and Eugenia Wynne [unknown][trial of Governor Wale]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suff...Thomas Fremantle [unknown]SermonsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging...Newton Barton [unknown]Death Notch the Avenging RancherPrint: Unknown
1850-189913 Mar 'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the acco...Luce [unknown][Bulletin]Unknown
1900-1945'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scar... unknownunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there w...[a priest] anon unknownprayerPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...anon [unknown][pestilent literature of rascaldom]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you w...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][unknown novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][an Italian Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape...Thomas Carlyle [unknown]The Sale RoomPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...Sydney Smith [unknown]The Dissenter Tripped Up
1800-1849'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.Sydney Smith unknownA Life in the ForestPrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which ...anon [unknown][the barren fig tree]Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...' Thomas Green [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the precedi...Sydney Smith [unknown][evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m...Sydney Smith unknown[article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m...Sydney Smith unknown[article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosion...Sydney Smith [unknown]The BeaconPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownPamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica
1850-1899'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our o...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownCassell's Illustrated Family PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impress... unknownTo sing with the AngelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most intere...Arnold Bennett unknownReview of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the MoonPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg...Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown][work in Italian]Print: Unknown
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] unknown[Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and of Oliver Cromwell]Print: Book
1900-1945'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it wa...Arthur Vanson unknown[penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'Mary Godwin [unknown][a novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le...Mary Godwin [unknown]Le Criminel SecretPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst en poste with him in Ch...Sir Robert Hart unknown[Light French novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himselfPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himselfPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse abo...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Discourse on the River Thames]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked a...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primu...Samuel Pepys [unknown][epitaph on memorial stone]Manuscript: Graffito
1600-1699'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownMahatma GandhiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterp...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownOakroydPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLe Blois VertPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of TurgotPrint: Book
1900-1945'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him pe...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of OragePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of th...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownThe Proceedings of the Secret CommitteePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknown[texts on French history]Print: Book
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read old voyages.'Mary Godwin [unknown][old voyages]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]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 ...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownPort Royal Greek GrammarPrint: 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 ...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownEton SelectaPrint: 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 ...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknown[Italian Grammar]Print: Book
1600-1699'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'Tom [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the c...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][petty-warrants]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a sm...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]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 unknownLife of Major GeshpillPrint: 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 unknown[Novels innumerable]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constab...Samuel Pepys [unknown][table-book]Manuscript: table-book
1600-1699'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown][History of the French Revolution]Print: Book
1800-1849'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.Mary Shelley [unknown][trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Roman Law...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Roman law]Unknown
1900-1945'Had a nice night last night. Tommy Bloody Handley on the wireless again, read every book in the house. Too dark to wa... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no id... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'There are things going on in the village, but no one would ever say "could I stay with your kiddies while you go". I ... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be pr...Arnold Bennett unknownreview of 'The Real India'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Roman law]Unknown
1800-1849'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'Mary Shelley [unknown][Italian operas]Print: Book
1600-1699'After supper, I to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders;...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Christian MajestyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's reven... [unknown][order of council]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he h...John Creed [unknown]Cabala, sive Scrinia SacraPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and to my chamber to read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish copying the Cenci'Mary Shelley [unknown]Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Roma il di 11 Maggio 1599Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence as were deposed before the Committee of Parliament etc, with the insolences of the Popish partyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and when came home there, I got my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below s...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'Balthasar St Michael [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obr...Samuel Pepys [unknown][street ballads]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
1600-1699'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]MustaphaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence walked to Barne elmes; and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being nowa... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Principal Officer's instructionsUnknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...Samuel Pepys [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...Matthew Wren [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...James, Duke of York [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...Samuel Pepys [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...Sir William Penn [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...Lord Brouncker [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my let...Samuel Pepys [unknown][book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'My boy was with me, and read to me all day' [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me a while, and then to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper, and the boy to read to me; and so to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and did get my wife to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence with W. Penn home, and there to get my people to read and to supper and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so made the boy read to me' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'William Hewer [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys unknown[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper a...Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and home, my wife to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e...William Battelier [unknown]Le commerce honourable ou Considerations Politiques OR Relation de l'establissement de la Compagnie Fran?oise pour le commerce des Indes OrientalesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, ...Tom Edwards [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1600-1699'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, the...Tom Edwards [?] [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1600-1699'and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk to read to ... [unknown][documents on the history of the Navy]Manuscript: Roll
1600-1699'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849R.A., alias J.F.: 'He [uncle] sent me to an excellent school where I stayed two years. After leaving school I perused ...R.A. [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
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S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfort...S.G. [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Visit from cell to cell: '2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life,...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Visit from cell to cell: '15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art...anon [unknown][book on the Protestant martyrs]Print: Book
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard...anon [unknown][novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading ...anon [unknown][novels and romances]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen...Arnold Bennett unknownHortulus AnimePrint: Book
1800-1849&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at vi...Percy Bysshe Shelley unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at vi...Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice [...] Dine at four -- Read after dinner some Plays.' ...Claire Clairmont unknownplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of...Claire Clairmont unknownLatin text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb...Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escar...Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this ...Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'Claire Clairmont unknownLes precieuses ridiculesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 18. Read the Life of Tasso. Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].'Claire Clairmont unknownLife of TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].'Claire Clairmont unknown'Voyage de Constantinople'Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday March 17th. Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos'Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday March -- 22nd [...] '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday March 23rd. '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 4th. [...] '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'.Claire Clairmont unknown'La Fleur des Batailles'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 18th. Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'.Claire Clairmont unknown'Histoire de Rigda et de Regner Lodborg'Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'.Claire Clairmont unknown'Huon de Bordeaux'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'.Claire Clairmont unknown'Huon de Bordeaux'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.Claire Clairmont unknownGuerin de MontglavePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read .' Claire Clairmont unknownLe petit Charles ou Neveu de mon onclePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'Claire Clairmont unknown'life of Plutarch'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany 27th. [...] Read an Irish pamphlet'.Claire Clairmont unknown'Irish pamphlet'
1800-1849'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact...Claire Clairmont unknown'Irish pamphlet'
1800-1849'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.Claire Clairmont unknown'another Irish Pamphlet'
1800-1849'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew aft...Claire Clairmont unknown'History of England' (French-language text)Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.' ...Claire Clairmont unknownLatin textPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Pape...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mr...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][playbill]Print: Handbill, Poster, playbill
1850-1899'Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very li...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrive...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic sh...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the d...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institut...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day &...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quar...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'Mr Neild [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten. Came home then & after reading a short t...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The Rev Mr Corrie read prayers to & then addressed the protestant prisoners.'Mr Corrie [unknown]prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][French Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one o...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspaper cutting]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garric...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy. Returned read while & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'Mary Shelley [unknown]Vita di AlfieriPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the life of Virgil'Mary Shelley [unknown]Life of VirgilPrint: Book
1850-1899'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little dra...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'Mary Shelley [unknown][a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des DamesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'Mary Shelley [unknown][tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des damesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Bib. de Chevalerie'Mary Shelley [unknown][tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des damesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.' [further readings in this text recorded in journal ...Claire Clairmont unknown'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.' [readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entri...Claire Clairmont unknown'Ditmar von Aarenstein'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.'Claire Clairmont unknown'Travels in Germany'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' [records finishin...Claire Clairmont unknownLife of GoethePrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' Claire Clairmont unknown'lives of the saints'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825: 'Have you met with Southey's new Poem...Elizabeth Barrett unknownReview of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825) (including extracts from poem)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of ...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownRoman LawPrint: 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 that...Elizabeth Barrett unknown'History of England and Rome'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 unknown'History of Greece'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [.....Elizabeth Barrett unknownReview of William Mitford, An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]JeremiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830: 'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's si...Henrietta Moulton-Barrett unknownLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'Mary Shelley [unknown][possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the King. To which are added, copies of their correspondence since the period of their separation. And the Queen's Character.
1800-1849'Muratori - greek - Irish books'Mary Shelley [unknown][books on Ireland]Print: Book
1800-1849'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel d...Eleanor Anne Porden unknownStrathallanPrint: Book
1800-1849'read greek - read Mackenzies works'Mary Shelley [unknown][Ancient Greek works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, whic...Fanny Trollope unknownjournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore...Mary Shelley [unknown][Greek texts]Print: Book
1900-1945'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight cont...Sidney Webb unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I...Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][advertisement]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]Print: Broadsheet
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'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 [unknown][history]Print: Book
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'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 [unknown][great poets' works]Print: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be...Jane Sewell [unknown]History of MontezumaPrint: Book
1800-1849'We formed a book-club amongst ourselves, chose and purchased some special favourite, or one which we heard praised, r...Elizabeth Missing Sewell and school friends [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, ...Benjamin Robert Haydon unknown'life' of David WilkiePrint: 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 [unknown][History of Venetian Doges]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 [unknown][a Spanish grammar]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 [unknown][a Spanish dictionary]Print: Book
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][Linnaean botany book]Print: Book
1800-1849'My sisters and I had a volume of the sermons given by an Oxford friend of our brother William; but it was with the ca...Elizabeth M. Sewell and her sisters [unknown][Oxford Movement sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown]Life of Stephen LangtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][pamphlets and magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844: 'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end itali...Elizabeth Barrett unknownA Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of NorwichPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see t...Arnold Bennett unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799[TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules For those who like to fare better than they now do, and a...Mary Bacon unknownTwelve True Old Golden RulesUnknown
1700-1799'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues]...Mary Bacon unknownunknownPrint: Advertisement
1700-1799West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to ___...Mary Bacon unknown[Almanac]Print: Unknown, set out in a table
1700-1799[Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger: ?Mars is situated next above the Earth his course being betwee...Mary Bacon unknown[almanac]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown]Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown]Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 26 July 1847: 'We passed the time [at the monastery at Vallombrosa] ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning unknownLife of St Giovanni GualbertoPrint: Book
1850-1899 'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the ...George Warrington Steevens unknownunknown [novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuvieme siecle"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Calleville, Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke aft...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownworks on the ReformationPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899[After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.' Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Japanese picture books]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for...Virginia Woolf unknown'book on Children & Sex'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a ...anon unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.'Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-19457 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect ...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of ByronPrint: 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 unknownHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of [?Samuel] JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownVarious unspecified books concerning John Knox.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 Unknown (trad)Jack The Giant KillerPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible bo...Harold Nicolson unknown[work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest po...Virginia Woolf unknown[ms novel]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman....Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family/friends unknown[unidentified plays]Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen unknown'18th Century prose'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen unknownbiographical worksPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on readi...Gerald Gould unknownnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'Virginia Woolf unknown'sporting memoirs'Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words...Virginia Woolf unknownFrench textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf unknownbiographiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the g...Leonard Woolf unknownGreek grammarPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Geor...Roger Fry unknown'French poetry'Print: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren ...Peter R. Oliver unknownSeventeenth Century VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a...Charles B.M. Warren unknown[Physiology textbook]Print: Book
1900-1945'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the...Vita Sackville-West unknown[Elizabethan lyrics]Print: Book
1800-1849'[The Comtesse] has a [italics] library [end italics] of novels - literally; so that I wonder she has not, by filling ...Lady [-] unknown[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it wit...Eric Shipton unknown[books of natural history]Print: Book
1850-1899'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first ...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Book, manuscripts also mentioned
1850-1899'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently movi...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of James BoswellPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl...Virginia Woolf unknown'Italian novel'Print: Book
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'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta...Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][Story of Perseus]Print: Book
1900-1945'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pu...Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse,...Virginia Woolf unknownGreek versePrint: Book
1700-1799'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had ...Janet Schaw unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 January 1845: 'I have seen a page of the Lancet (which Nelly Bordman sen...Elizabeth Barrett unknownarticle on reported cure by mesmerism of Harriet MartineauPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu...Florence Elizabeth Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and sa...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][American cookery books]Print: Book
1850-1899'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which ...Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night'Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books...Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson'...Alfred, Lord Tennyson [unknown][review of his own 'Idylls of the King']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Melle MoriPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end ital...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][anthology of laudatory sonnets]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they wi...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]London GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating'Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][book on portraits of Dante]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'Virginia Woolf unknown[History of Music]Print: Book
1850-1899'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'Marianne Gaskell [unknown][a history of the French Revolution]Print: Book
1850-1899'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you so...Charlotte Bronte [unknown]['standard works'; not novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][French]Print: Book
1850-1899'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][letter to Marianne Gaskell]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".''the Heald girls' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'George Crabbe [unknown][pamphlet]
1800-1849'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - ...George Crabbe [unknown][Miscellany]Print: Book
1800-1849'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon t...George Crabbe [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear...George Crabbe [unknown][Travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very n...George Crabbe [unknown][book on witchcraft trials]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking M...George Crabbe [unknown][unknown work on religious enthusiasm]Print: Book
1900-1945'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'Antonia White [unknown][MSS by or about Carlyle]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ...Antonia White [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen ...Antonia White [unknown]['trash']Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no...Antonia White [unknown]['lives of painters']Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no...Antonia White [unknown]['journals of poets']Print: Book
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...Antonia White [unknown][a life of George Eliot]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ...Antonia White [unknown][Catholic texts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic...Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a...Antonia White [unknown][writings about religion, Church History, etc]Print: Book
1700-1799'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Re...Laetitia van Lewen [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][letters to Swift from various correspondents]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pil...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Lea...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] D...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][commendatory verses by various admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time wi...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Having agreed to let her landlady lodge a Dr Turnbull in her (LP's) bedchamber] 'I went up to my own Apartment, where...George Turnbull [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I was going to proceed, when Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] interrupted me; I was, said he, at the Duke of [italic...Emilia, Lady Lennox [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely wi...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives...George Rooke [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][books on Roman History]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, t...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][a French drinking song]Unknown
1700-1799[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][prison discharge document]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but wa...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][inscriptions]Manuscript: Graffito
1700-1799'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it wo...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poetry by various correspondents]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; ...Thomas Carlyle unknown[German novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whet...Vita Sackville-West unknown[nineteenth-century works]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [ita...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown]The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers
1700-1799'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Min...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poems sent by admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mist...Rosemary Sutcliff unknown[children's book]Print: Book
1900-1945'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Gr...Vita Sackville-West unknown[selections from a Greek Anthology]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and ...Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had r...soldier [unknown][a review of Ford's work]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it w...Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen [unknown][book on wild flowers]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Per...Esther Julia Ford [unknown][first reading]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Euro...Ford Madox Ford [unknown]review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly'] Print: Book
1900-1945'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying ove...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods']Print: Book
1900-1945'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many ...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for 'A Little Less than Gods']Print: Book
1900-1945'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea...Janice Biala [unknown][life and letters of Gauguin]Print: Book
1900-1945'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing ...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...Philip Larkin [unknown][various fiction works in his father's library]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I ...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownlaw booksPrint: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis...Mr Glasser [unknown][books in English]Print: Book
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed j...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. ...Mr Glasser [unknown][books on politics]Print: Book
1900-1945'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read...Ralph Glasser [unknown][acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces...Rachel [unknown][Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the c...Ralph Glasser [unknown][a girl's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explaine...Ralph Glasser [unknown][Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][German poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][citation for bravery]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical...Mr Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; adm...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read o...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][history books]Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][description of the Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...Louisa, Lady Holroyd [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in America]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, ...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[law books]Print: Book, Law books in the plural.
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 [unknown]Memoires de l'Europe sous NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in anoth...Anne Romilly [unknown][legal briefs]Unknown
1800-1849'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first ar...Anne Romilly [unknown][letter to Madame de Stael]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n...Samuel Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n...Anne Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...Anne Romilly [unknown]Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...Anne Romilly [unknown]Eugene Print: Book
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl...Richard Lovell Edgeworth [unknown][Reports on Mendicity]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ...Anne Romilly [unknown][unidentified novel]Print: Book
1600-1699'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of re...Thomas Tryon [unknown][reading primer]Print: Book
1600-1699'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I...Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad ta...Thomas Tryon [unknown][books on astrology]Print: Book
1600-1699'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'Thomas Tryon [unknown][books]Print: Book
1600-1699'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertai...Katherine Hamilton [unknown][unknown]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 [unknown][unknown]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 [unknown][A history of England]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete p...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][scholastic divinity essays]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 [unknown][books chosen by Mrs Marshall]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 [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme...Mrs Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella S...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][Scottish history]Print: Book
1700-1799'History and travels are our chief favourites; but with them we intermix a variety of miscellaneous literature, with n...Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' Samuel Johnson [unknown]['The Italian' - unknown text]Unknown
1700-1799'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][sources for his Dictionary]Print: Book
1700-1799'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnso...Samuel Johnson [unknown][books of Northern literature]Print: Book
1850-1899'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy...Alfred Edward Housman [unknown][book on astronomy]Print: Book
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren...Mr Foote [unknown][a French magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren...Mr Murphy [unknown][a French magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost a...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns...Samuel Johnson [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns...George III of England [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Book
1700-1799'between reading, chatting and backgammon, we conclude the evening, and usually retire, making the remark, that if we ...Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and wi...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][oriental literature]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting bo...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that per...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds...Samuel Johnson [unknown]['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.]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 [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.' James Boswell [unknown][legal trial papers]Unknown
1700-1799'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n...James Boswell [unknown][books belonging to Johnson]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ...James Elphinstone [unknown][a recently published book]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][a recently published book]Print: Book
1850-1899'[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'.George Gissing [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath...Samuel Johnson [unknown][verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownmaterial about BurnsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evol...Vera Brittain unknownThe Evolution of World PeacePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'Priscilla Hannah Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, possibly Bible]Print: Book
1700-1799'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I devoted most of my morning writing to P. Hoare, writing French and reading'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'at night snug time reading after the rest of the family were in bed'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its...John Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I wrote and read a little before breakfast'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a comfortable time with my children only I felt too anxious for uncle Joseph to see them as he was here but he ...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][French]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read to dear little Mary'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
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[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug...Elizabeth Lyttelton unknownHistory of NaplesPrint: Book
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[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug...Elizabeth Lyttelton unknownHistory of VenicePrint: Book
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[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug...Elizabeth Lyttelton unknownSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I...Priscilla Gurney [unknown]Accounts of the MissionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Lady E.K. [unknown][Bible probably]Print: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Amelia Roberts [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Amelia Roberts [unknown][hymn-book]Print: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan...Eliza Cooper [unknown]Come to JesusPrint: Book, tract
1850-1899'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at home in the evening till nearly eleven Then went down the Street.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to bed at ten o clock. Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening. Read & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read in the morning.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899' Read at home during the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at home in the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak....John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I went to "the Mechanics" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'went to the Yorick Club & read for a time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the wh...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking fo...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or oppos...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Roman history]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Handy AndyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco &...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan WildPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Walter Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs Castieau'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how muc...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Le FevrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Heard Dotty read to-night & was quite pleased at finding she was very much improved & able to read easy words without...Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & th...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as fa...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Eng...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]The GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][story books]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea I read with Harry some Dramatic [?]. Harry understands well what he reads, but is in too great a hurry & co...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'"Telo" one of the Age staff was hunting up material for an Article & spent the whole day in the prison. He had some l...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Heard Harry read & was much pleased with the understanding he shows though he is at times very careless with regard t...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls...Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea Harry began to read & was pretty successful with his lesson for which he was duly rewarded a mark.'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][dialogue]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & I read for a long time together while mamma amused herself with the piano.'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][dialogue?]Print: Book
1850-1899'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read to the youngsters in the evening'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I heard Harry read. He could not however get on very well & so I turned him over to his mother & playe...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from th...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoke...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama]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 Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][prison report]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read with Harry in the Evening, then played a long game of Bezique with Sissy'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak p...Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak p...Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Dr SyntaxPrint: Book
1850-1899'After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed'Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'in the evening I did a little reading & went to bed early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Had some reading with Harry & Dotty, Dotty went to sleep but Harry joined me in a Piece & listened to my reading anot...Castieau family [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelv...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to b...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & I did some Readings. It was a great night for Harry & he did'ent go to bed till after ten o'cl...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'read in the evening & went to bed early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'spent the evening at home reading'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'Castieau family [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'This night I went to bed at ten o'clock. Polly stayed down stairs reading'Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read at the Athenaeum.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we ha...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light di...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three gam...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown - novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed up late reading & smoking'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by r...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes t...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the m...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prison...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Five Years in Penal ServitudePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read & wrote till bed time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to bed after reading for a long while'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br...James Boswell [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagern...James Boswell [unknown]Lives of the convictsPrint: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and read tell 4, and then I walked a litle abroad and, after I Cam home, read and [torn] tell ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con...Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier an...Margaret Hoby [unknown]Diet of the SoulPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after w...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after w...Margaret Hoby [unknown][a book of the pews in the church]Manuscript: Codex
1500-1599'then I hard Mr Rhodes read tell allmost dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after that I walked abroade, then I Cam in and wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, then I praied with Mr Rhodes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][sermon - Revelation]Print: Book
1500-1599'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for beinge not well, partly through myne owne folly'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, hard Euerill Read, and then praied, so went to supper'Euerill Aske [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe Letter and wret an other'Margaret Hoby [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1500-1599'then I walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time: then I hard that, and so went to supper: ... and, after,...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I did read a while to my workwemen, and then to the Lector'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after supper, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then went to priuat praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, hard him read, then praied, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 7th. [...] The Duchess[of York]'s life is an odd one; she seld...Duchess of York unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1500-1599'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I Came home and reed to Mrs Ormstone'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and so read tel supper Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I dimed, and talked with some strangers that Came to visitt me, and after, being not well, I slept a while and t...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell all most supper time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I wrought and reed tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I reed a hard readinge a whill'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'praied with Mr Rhodes, hard one read, and then went to priuat praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I hard one read of ardentons book, and after I talked with Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][ardenton's book]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dimer I talked a whill, and then wrought and hard Mr Maude read of a sermon'Mr Maude [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, I hard Mr Maud read of a sarmon book, then I praied, after dinned: then then I wrought and hard Mr Maud read a...Mr Maude [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I went about the house, and reed, did eate my breakfast, then I reed againe tell dinner time, the...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a whil...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praers I Reed tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I caused one to Read vnto me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'att :5: a cloke, I returned againe to examenation and praier: then I reed a whill and, after, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after that, I hard him read tell all most night'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, hard mr Rhodes read praies, and went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I hard Mr Rhodes Read of a good mans book, who proueth against Bis: Bilson that Christ suffered in soule the wr...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'read tell diner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed a whill and then did eate my breakfast'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'My silence on natural history & natural philosophy, arose from igno...Robert Southey unknown[works on science]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes Read of a booke against some newe spronge vp herisies'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed a whill, after I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I dressed vp my Clositte and read and, to refreshe my selfe beinge dull, I plaied and sunge to the Alphe...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read tell 4 acloke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then Mr Rhodes reed to me tell 4'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I walked a whill and hard one read'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and allmost all the afternone, I hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read, took order for supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read, conferred with him Vpon some thinges touchinge himselfe'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I talked with a neighbour, then wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I kept Companie tell they departed and, after, reed and talked with a yonge papest maid'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I dressed my patients, reed, talked with a neighbour, praied, then dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read, and wrought, took order for supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did eate, read, and then goe to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did eate, heare Mr Rhodes read, dressed my patients'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praer I did read, break my fast, and then went with Mr Hoby to the Garden'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'reed a whill of another good book, and then went to priuat medetations and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then wrought, reed, and wrett tell diner tim'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and obsarued mine accustomed exercises tell night'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I took order for supper and read abroad with Mr Hoby'Thomas and Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I hard the sarmon and after reed of a good book tell supper time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and was busie deliueringe some monie'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes read tell dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praers I did goe about the house and, hauing dune som busenes, I did eate a litle, read, and lastly dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did read, eate, and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied and reed, some of my freinds came, with whom I talked'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed, talked with my phesition and som other gentlewemen, and so went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I dinned, then I walked about with my mother and reed, tell towardes night: then I praied priuatl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I was busie in the house, and walkinge and reading tell supper time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did read, eate, and so went to Church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went about a whill, and reed a praier, and then went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][prayer]Print: Book
1600-1699'then went to priuat praer and reed a whill, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went to supper, then I reed, and lastly went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, went about the house and reed a whill, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I wrought tell all most 5 a cloke, and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of the principles of poperie out of one of their owne bookes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I did eate, read, and after went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praere I did read to my wemen'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of a popeshe booke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I brake my fast, wrought, hard Mr Rhodes Read, took a lector'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrough and hard Mr Rhodes reead'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when I had reed a whill, I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed a whill and praied, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I kept in my Chamber workinge tell allmost night and hard my Cosine Isons Read' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, praied, and went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Came in I reed, praied, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'all the followinge I went about and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell my time of priuat examenation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after priuat praers I reed, walked and medetated'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie I was Called to some busenes, which dine I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had gone about some busenes I praied priuatly, and after reed and took a lecture'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when I Came in, I reed a litle of humanitie, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I went to work and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I wrett notes in my testement, reed a whill, and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner, I went about a whill, hard Mr Rhodes Read, and then I went to priuat examenation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, read a whill, and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'when they were gone, I reed and wrett in my sarmon booke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'when I Came in, I wrought and reed tell 5 a cloke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed a whill and so went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after reed and praied, and then I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a sarmon booke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did read, then I wrought a peece of work for a freind'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I went about the house, then I hard Mr Rhodes read, took a lecture, praied, wrought, and went to d...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I praied and dined, and then I talked with my Mother and reed to hir'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, praied, and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I brake my fast: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought tell allmost dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie and had praied, I went about the house, wrought a whill, reed, and praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I went about the house, and then went to my work and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I hard Mr Rhodes read, and so I went to priuatt examenation and praier: after I went to supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book'Richard Rhodes [unknown][Sermons]Print: Book
1600-1699'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did read and went about the house, and, after I had broken my fast, I went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, dined: and then I talked and reed to some good wiffes that was with me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went about the house, and, hauinge eaten some thinge, I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I reed and went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went about and wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read, and praied with him, and so went to supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I diner I made an end of writinge my sarmon, then I walked, Red, and wrought'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then walked abroad into the feedles'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed a whill to my mother, and then went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I talked and reed to some good wiues that dined [with] me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at the time of praier, I returned to priuat examenation, praier, and reading: after, I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed, did eate my breakfast, and then went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then dined: after, I talked of the sarmon, and reed to the good wiues that was with me, and then I praied and againe ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, wrett diuers notes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'some thinge I did eate, and then did reed, and made prouision for som strangers that Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I reed and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I hard a good booke reed by Mr Vrpeth, and sonne after I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when the sarmon was don, I Came in and hard Mr Ardington Read a sarmon'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and then I hard Mr Ardington read a sarmon and talked with hime tell allmost night'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and, after Diner, I went about the house, wrett 2. letters, hard Mr Rhodes read a sarmon, then walked with Mr Ardington'Richard Rhodes [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went to work and hard readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and praied and so dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to the Church when I had reed and eaten somethinge ... and when I had reed a whill, I went...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard Mr Genking Read tell 4 a cloke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed abroad'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I dined, I wrought, walked and reed tell allmost night'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, praied, was busie about waxe lights, and then I dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier: then to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I Continewed my orderarie exercises of praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge a whill I went to the church ... then dined: after, I talked [with] some of my neigh...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'All but the times of my ordenarie exercises of praier and readinge I was busie takinge order for my going to london, ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to worke tell dinner time: after, I wrought and reed, and was accompened with Mr Edward Ga...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after I had reed and praied, I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and after I dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and wrett a letter to Mr Rhodes: then I dined ... and after I went to my book...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed, and talked with Mr Vrpith'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praiers I went to readinge: then I was busie tell diner time ... then I returned home, and reed, and aft...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I reed a sarmon, and so, hauinge praied, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went to Read a whill and, when I had praied, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers I went to diner: after, I went to a standinge to se the quene Come to London, were I Reed a serome'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to worke, and read, and so, when I had praied and supped, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and wrought and was Vesited by my brother, and, after I had praied and suped, I reed and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs, I reed and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed, and went to diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie, and had praied and reed, I walked'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I walked and was veseted by my Cousine Cookes wiffe, and, after they were gone, I went to readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed, and walked to the Comune Garden'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers I reed, and wrett to Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I had praied, reed, wrought, and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and when I Came home I went to priuat readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I busied myself in my Chamber and then went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to Mr Egertons sermon and so, within litle time, I went to priuat readinge and praier, and settinge dow...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when he was gome, I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after supper I went againe to priuat praier and reading, and so to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After my praier and readinge I went into the feedles with Mistress Thornbrow ... and, after she was gone, I went to p...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to walk'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'had so great a Cough that I Could not goe abroad, nor the next day goe to church, but exercised my selfe at home in w...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at my accustomed time I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Cam home I was pained in the toothach which Continewed with me 4 days after, in which time I exercised praing...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers And readinge I went to diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praier I went to readinge and worke tell diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I, beinge not well, praied and reed in mine owne chamber'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day was rainie so that I Could nor durst goe abroad but exersised in the house, with prainge and reading and sin...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs I went to work, and, hauinge reed a Litle, I talked with some that Came to Dine with vs'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praiers I brake my fast and reed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After, I went to priuat readinge and medetation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After my accustomed prairs I did eate and read'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardingto...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardingto...Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I praied and reed, dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Con...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Con...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I returned in to my Chamber, and there reed and praied tell all most I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'the rest of the day, after the afternone sermon, I spent in readinge, singing, praing, and hearinge repeticions'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs and readinge I kept Mr Gatt Companie'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after Diner, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, walked about with Hoby, and then returned to priuatt reading and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went about the howse, and then reed and wrought a whill before diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went to priuatt prairs and medetation and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had reed and praied I went about the house'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, went to readinge and preparation for the next day'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'was buseed about that all day tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly'John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after went to readinge and medetation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bibl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bibl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after supper, I hard Mr Aston praie and reade, and so went to bed'Mr Aston [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read: after diner I went abroad, and when I come home I dresed some sores: afte...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wi...John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I went to the church, and, after, I Came from thence, I praied and reed: after, I dined: then, I talked ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, and wrought tell :2: a cloke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I wrought, reed, went about the house, and praied againe before diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a good booke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church: after, I Came home, and after diner I reed a Litl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine: after I Came home and that I had dined, I talked of good ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, sonne after, went to priuatt prairs and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I praied, dined, and reed, and Conferred of good thinges to such wemen as dined with me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at my accustomed Hower, I returned to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of the true diCeplen of christes church'Richard Rhodes [unknown]Book of DisciplinePrint: Book
1600-1699'this day I Continewed my accustomed exercises, and wrough, hard Mr Ardington read, and singe psa: tell I went to priu...Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I busied my selfe about the house, and hard some readinge, and after I went to priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'in the afternone Mr Ardington Reed to me'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to my Clositt, and there reed and praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs I wrought, and hard Mr Ardington Reed'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs I wrought, as I was accustomed, with my maides, and hard Mr Ardington read: and, after I had dined and h...Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then read and praied priuatly'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after diner I went about, and walked abroad, and hard Mr Ardington read'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praiers I reed, and kept Companie with Mrs Girlington and diuers that Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After piruatt praier I went about the house, and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after the sarmon and dimer, I reed to the wiues and talked of the sarmon'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'reed to the good wiffes, as I had wont, after dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner I reed to some good neighbours'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I Continewed well, I thanke god, these daies: and reed some medetations of the Lady Bowes hir Makinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'this day I Continewed to heare, and read, and pray, I praise god, [with] much Comfort as before'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I haue Continewed my duties or praier and readinge, both findinge my corruption and receiuinge stringthMargaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and hard from my Cossine Arthur dakine: and so, in the afternone likewise, hard some readinge of a book he sent me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'towarde Night I went to my accostomed exercises of Readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after the exercises I went to readinge and priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner went into the Garden, vntill I retourned to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and in the afternone I went to priuatt prairs and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at night returned to priuat readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and towardes night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after they were gone I retourned to Readinge and priuat praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after went to priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'towardes Night I went to priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after I had praied I went to readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at Night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and towardes night went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'priuat Readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'During the daytime I could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the ...Zoe Procter [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my el...Zoe Procter [unknown][nineteenth-century poets]Print: Book
1850-1899'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "...Zoe Procter [unknown]Girls' Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I find a copy of the "Prison Regulations" for December 1938: European rations total over three pounds daily and Japan...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Prison RegulationsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Notice over the bakery - "Wedding Cakes A Speciality"'Thomas Kitching [unknown][sign]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the G...Thomas Kitching [unknown][marginalia in Dandelion Days]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the O...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Oxford Advanced AtlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do t...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1900-1945'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for reader...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1900-1945'A quotation from a book I am reading says: "The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it." How one realises that as ...Thomas Kitching [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia a...Thomas Kitching [unknown]postcardManuscript: postcard
1900-1945'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. W...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Wonderful BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Walking in the GrampiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finish...William Soutar [unknown]Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'William Soutar [unknown][ballads]Unknown
1900-1945'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share i...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: e...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there ...William Soutar [unknown]EdwardPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin [unknown][chemistry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'read some Greek'John Ruskin [unknown][Greek]Print: Book
1800-1849'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len...John Ruskin [unknown]Art UnionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'John Ruskin [unknown]WitnessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember ou...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wantin...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies,...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the A...John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as ...John Ruskin [unknown]Journal pour tousPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Read only Geology'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur...John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read geology'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read to children under tree.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'John Ruskin [unknown][life of Lord Byron]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'John Ruskin [unknown][poems]Unknown
1850-1899'Read of Empress Theodora'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'read economy of 12th century'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late...John Ruskin [unknown]Roman de la rose [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Rouen missal with advantage'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'John Ruskin [unknown]Roman de la rose [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'John Ruskin [unknown][Moschele's life]Print: Book
1850-1899'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 6...John Ruskin [unknown]MuneraPrint: Book
1850-1899'finally concluding in reading a French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'John Ruskin [unknown]Expectans expectaviPrint: Book
1850-1899'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'John Ruskin [unknown]MariegolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'John Ruskin [unknown]AriadnePrint: Book
1850-1899'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'John Ruskin [unknown]Roma SotterneaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'John Ruskin [unknown]AladdinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ...Joseph Conrad unknown unknown Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern PolandPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757: 'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdale...Frances Sheridan unknownHistory of the Magdalens (extracts)Unknown
1900-1945'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking ...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scra...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri...
Rosamund Wallis unknown[a specimen of Irish literature]Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri...
Elsie Sikes unknown[Irish Bulls]Unknown

 

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