√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.' | George Austen | Francis Lathom | Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incidents in Real Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.' | George Austen | William Cowper | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 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 | Edward Jenkins | Ginx's Baby | Print: Book |
| 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 | unknown | Peasant Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should... | Margaret Oliphant | George Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar... | Margaret Oliphant | Collins | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar... | Margaret Oliphant | Anthony Trollope | Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I w... | Margaret Oliphant | Alexander William Kinglake | Eothen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...' | Margaret Oliphant | Major Lockhart | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not ... | Margaret Oliphant | Alexander Allardyce | City of Sunshine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.' | Margaret Oliphant | Alphonse Daudet | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in th... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.' | Margaret Oliphant | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book. | Margaret 'Peggy' Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa Harlowe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Callimachus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Apollonius Rhodius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Quintus Calaber | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Thucydides | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristotle | Politics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristotle | Organon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Athenaeus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Terence | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucretius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Catullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Albius Tibullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sextus Propertius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Silius Italicus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Velleius Paterculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sallust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Caesar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristophanes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Monk | Biography of Richard Bentley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | ' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | Seventh Idyll | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | The Alchemist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 | 'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans' | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | The Homes of England | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text] | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | Evening Prayer at a Girl's School | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text] | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | The Wings of the Dove | Unknown |
| | completed the perusal of the firstvolume of Perry's French Revolution, which requires to be read with care, the author... | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continued the perusal of the 2nd volume which opens a display of the insubordination & cruelty of the French populace | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| | READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTION | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continue the perusal of Perry's French Revolution, which like the murmurings heard at the foot of the crater become mo... | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| | Still engaged in the perusal of Perry's French Revolution together with a few periodical publications by way of a chan... | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper
| I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper
| I.G. | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine
| I.G. | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Engaged in a 2nd perusal of The Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine
| I.G. | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany
| I.G. | Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-Holstein | Germany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continue the perusal of Rollins Ancient History- this work reflects great light upon the sacred volume. | I.G. | Charles Rollin | Ancient History of the Egyptians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production
| I.G. | Robert Southey | Life of Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope.... | Gertrude Savile | David Lewis | Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil and | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's Chronicles | Gertrude Savile | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11... | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11. | Gertrude Savile | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of the Kings of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old... | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Haywood | Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on t | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Li... | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love') | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or ... | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Killigrew | Chit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late. | Gertrude Savile | James Shirley | The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures.... | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's... | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef... | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read after supper the contempt of the clergy. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Charles Sedley | The Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two Volumes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'.... | Gertrude Savile | Nathaniel Lee | Constantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his... | Gertrude Savile | Nathaniel Lee | Caesar Borgia. A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor]. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef... | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt]. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Each... | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending thei... | Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour | | Church of England burial service | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10. | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Savil... | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Wotton | The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and His | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | William Shakespeare | Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage. | Gertrude Savile | Charles Beckingham | The Life of Mr Richard Savage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's. | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) John Denham | The Sophy OR Poems and Translations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's. | Gertrude Savile | Martin Luther | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by ... | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) John Vanbrugh | A Journey to London, being part of a comedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggars Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extre... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back wit... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 w... | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel... | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Cons... | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) Richard Steele | The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read the 'Universal Passion' | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. H... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Han... | Gertrude Savile | | The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted st | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc. | Gertrude Savile | 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' | Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had m | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The British Recluse'. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Haywood | The British Recluse; Or the Secret History of Cleo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jonathan Swift | Essay on the Fates of Clergymen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Prude'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Edward Gibbon | Vindication | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate". | Gertrude Savile | Jean Regnauld de Segrais | Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | Jean Regnauld de Segrais | Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Conyers Middleton | Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read a Novell after supper. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | [A Novell] OR [A Novel] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Slept in the chair - knew not what to do with myself. Read a New Tragidy in Maniscript that has not been acted; the st... | Gertrude Savile | | 'Brutus' OR 'A Tragedy' | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures of | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Life of Count De Venivill' after supper. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!... | Gertrude Savile | 'Young Nobleman' | Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens... | Gertrude Savile | 'Young Nobleman' | Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: A... | Gertrude Savile | Elijah Fenton | Mariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures of | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of 'Gil Blas'. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls. | Gertrude Savile | Philip Massinger | The Very Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in ... | Gertrude Savile | Nicholas Rowe | The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Some of Dr Clark's paraphras. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Jevon | The Devil of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Abraham Cowley | The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his firs... | Margaret Oliphant | George MacDonald | David Elginbrod | Manuscript: MS of a book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h... | Margaret Oliphant | John Morley | Life of George Eliot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of the Life of George Eliot | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I... | Margaret Oliphant | Laurence Oliphant | Land of Gilead, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'. | Margaret Oliphant | | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article o... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and ... | Margaret Oliphant | A.K.H. Boyd | Taking in Sail | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I th... | Margaret Oliphant | J.M. Barrie | Auld Licht Idylls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun ... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chal... | Margaret Oliphant | | [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a litt... | Margaret Oliphant | A.P. Stanley | A Selection from the writings of Dean Stanley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath -... | Margaret Oliphant | Andrew Lang | Life of Lockhart | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book |
| 1850-1899 | I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one m... | Margaret Oliphant | Marie Corelli | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise". | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Gregory | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Synesius | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare... | mother of Joseph Wright | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare... | mother of Joseph Wright | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare... | mother of Joseph Wright | Friedrich Klopstock | Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft:
George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I re... | George Martin | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | "On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted ... | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | [odes] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Crocket: "I keep Pan's Coffee-house in Castle-street; on the 9th of No... | George Watson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
2 statements -that George Todd was apprehended in a public house, reading ... | George Todd | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank m... | George Nash | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former groc... | [a grocer] Anon | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | a revolutionary Russian rag merchant | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ... | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo... | George Gregory | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo... | George Gregory | John Harries | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m... | George Gregory | | Jack and The Ostrich | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m... | George Gregory | Charles Monroe Sheldon | The Crucifixion of Philip Strong | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m... | George Gregory | | Strongdold the Gladiator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yest... | Algernon Montagu | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only be... | G.G. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Report of prison chaplain on the progress of prisoner:
"From his first arrival in gaol, he had been attended by the... | J.G. | | Child's First Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Hesiod | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Athenaeus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cato | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sallust | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Tacitus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aulus Gellius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Suetonius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Academic Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Natura Deorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Divinatione | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Speeches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters to Atticus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Second Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Third Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Last Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter]. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Crito | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Juvenal | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor... | Sir George Beaumont | John Beaumont | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned t... | George Gregory | Charles Lyell | Principles of Geology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned t... | George Gregory | | [book of world history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | [the story of Joseph] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Jack the Giant Killer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Sinbad the Sailor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Beauty and the Beast | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Aladdin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | Homer | the Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim... | Hugh Miller | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim... | Hugh Miller | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim... | Hugh Miller | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Wi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Cowper | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bard... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Monthly Literary Recreations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long a... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [morning newspaper] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods.
Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard:
Q: "Do you... | George Picard | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a 'bogus' invoice to the court:
Q: "... | George Deboos | | | Manuscript: invoice |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a letter aloud to the court
Deboos: ... | George Deboos | | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitec... | Nicholas Benigne Ablin | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositio... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a ... | George Griffiths | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a ... | George Griffiths | | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Brougham | [speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi mo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | Ode ("Exegi monumentum") | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon | advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Galt | Fair Shepherdess, The | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Even... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | De Arte Poetica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the ... | Francis Gifford Banner | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
George Coombs: "I appointed to meet him [Conway] next evening at the coffee... | George Coobs | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | [translation of Juvenal] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Richard Watson | Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published),... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines on Dermody] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines in the cave at Seaham] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | Metrical Effusions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your s... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [Sunday papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... m... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the spe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [biography] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Brooke | [untitled manuscript] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church an... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [epitaphs] | Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James and Horace Smith | Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke do... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Thurlow | "When Rogers ... " | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Galt | Letters from the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures... | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des O... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | A. L. Castellan | Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webste... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Grimm | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J. Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | British Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publicati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perus... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Christian Observer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 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 | unknown | Persian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchoir Grimm | Correspondance Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Burns | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In 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 |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh R... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sir Egerton Brydges | The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental Essays | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webst... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster | letter with poem | Manuscript: Letter |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Frederick Cooke | Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity... | George Frederick Cooke | George Gordon Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| | In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards... | George Frederick Cooke | George Gordon Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment for adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Glenbervie | Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron'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 | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron'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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the ba... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, an... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | The Robbers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron'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 | unknown | Anti-Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | Quarrels of Authors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Chardin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matteo Bandello | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the begi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron'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 | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Herman Merivale | Orlando in Roncesvalles | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Feast of the Poets | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Deborah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 | unknown | Anti-Byron | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Frances Burney | The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814) | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Stratford Canning | Bonaparte | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 |
| | Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Murray | [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)] | Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas [?] | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (allud... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Porson | Letters to Archdeacon Travis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepte... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said ... | Augusta Leigh | Annabella Milbanke | [letter to Byron] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, all... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must no... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [packet] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Annual Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [daily newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I als... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Byron family pedigree | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Story of Rimini (Canto 3) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Lamb | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Byron | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... wer... | Augusta Leigh | Leigh Hunt | The Story of Rimini | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Novelle Amorose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Animali Parlante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remembe... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edmund Ludlow | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Margaret de Thomas | epitaph to Edmund Ludlow | Manuscript: tombstone epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | [inscription on rock] | Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | H. Gally Knight | Ilderim: A Syrian Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Pamphleteer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucretia de Borgia | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the corresponde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia | letters | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | ["the Italian version of the French papers"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'". | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair... | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webst... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points... | Magdalene Erskine | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,... | Augusta Leigh | George Gordon Lord Byron | travel journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 vol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between... | George Gordon Lord Byron | St. Paul | Epistles to Corinthians | Print: BookUnknown |
| | Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Can... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the st... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johan Christoph von Schiller | Geisterseher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto III | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They ar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Charles Robert Maturin | Manuel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Su... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know wheth... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Belgrave Hoppner | Elegy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Rev. William Beloe | The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertain... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [obituary] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Stewart Rose | The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Italian Gazettes] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have see... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | The Friends: a Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Vittorio Alfieri | [marginalia] | Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rathe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | n/a | Manuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benvenuto da Imola | Commentary on Dante, Commedia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read thi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David... | George Acorn | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Countess Teresa Guiccioli | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | [probably William] Robertson | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, theref... | Margaret Charlton | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [poems] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She ... | Margaret Baxter | | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | A Legend of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the pa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsch... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | German periodicals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to orde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Marino Sanuto | "Italian history of the Doges of Venice" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | "Siege of Zara" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Antoine Daru | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Charles Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish la... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Giulio Perticari | Dell'amor patrio di Dante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jane Waldie | Sketches Descriptive of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [speeches] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago ... | Margaret Oliphant | Amelia Hutchison Stirling | Monsieur le Comte | Manuscript: Book in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name?... | Margaret Oliphant | Harriette Cheape | Tea at the Mains | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wrecker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances... | Margaret Oliphant | Rudyard Kipling | Naulakha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original,... | Margaret Oliphant | Sarah Grand | Singularly Deluded | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir... | Margaret Oliphant | | St James's | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | Graham Travers | Mona Maclean: Medical Student | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | F Marion Crawford | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of e... | Margaret Oliphant | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the At... | Margaret Oliphant | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home a... | [?George] Simpson | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of ... | G.C. Swayne | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | papers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers men... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [poetry] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Guiseppe Bossi | Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (3rd series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- r... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. Th... | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Louis Ginguene | Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Lope de Vega | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and re... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Roscoe | The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series o... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (2nd series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lugano Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron'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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | The Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | accounts | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | various | Lives of poets | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | unknown | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Poets] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon. | Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Milton | Sabrina Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guid... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Franz Grillparzer | Sappho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Schiller | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Christoph Martin Wieland | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the ope... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Diodorus Siculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | Javanese newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron'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 |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Rea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Corr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remark... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Co... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Lisle Bowles | various | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Louis Buonaparte | Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned .... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| | 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 | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Roman history | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Italian newspaper | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on W... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Turner | Journal of a Tour in the Levant | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [various novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in th... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particu... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Gr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ruddiman | Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Douglas Kinnaird | letter (ie article?) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & ful... | George Gordon Lord Byron | J. G. Lockhart | John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply... | George Gordon Lord Byron | [N. N. A.] anon | [private letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in Eng... | George Gordon Lord Byron | A. A. Watts | series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's works | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Tully | Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) rela... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Octavius Gilchrist | pamphlets | |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Books of Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron'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 |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be perso... | Douglas Kinnaird | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Sheppard | [unknown] | Manuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for "Mirandola" | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Southey | letter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical dra... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Oxoniensis [pseud.] | Remonstrance against Cain | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | [English newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the do... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | | Manuscript: epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Wr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subsc... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): '... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thompson | book of prescriptions | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in S... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Harriet Lee | The German's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count D'Orsay | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more wel... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau | Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times." | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Haydn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Mozart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | essay on Racine and Shakespeare | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me wit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Amadee Pichot | Essai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]t | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Ann Fraser Tytler | Leila: or, The Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Catherine Sinclair | Holiday House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | | The Wave and the Battlefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the e... | Grace Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Mary Louisa Molesworth | The Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Chaplet of Pearls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp... | Grace Macaulay | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp... | Grace Macaulay | Wilhelm Hey | Funfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig Fabeln | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".' | Grace Macaulay | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Ita... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Gally Knight | Alashtar, an Arabian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work en... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | review of Byron, The Age of Bronze | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an artic... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Hellenica Chronica | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead ... | George Gissing | Hall Caine | The Manxman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive... | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | | Chambers's Encyclopedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..." | George Bernard Shaw | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...' | George Saintsbury | Karl Marx | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all ... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart o... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ... | Hugh Walpole | various | The Abbotsford Correspondence | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherin... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | Katherine Christian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Stor... | George Saintsbury | Walter Scott | Wandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of hi... | Gordon Hewart | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the reso... | A Young Ploughman | | [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh... | Douglas Jerrold | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | A.J. Cronin | Hatter's Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up ... | Margaret Oliphant | Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 18... | Grant Duff | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...' | H. G. Wells | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Reade | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His tar... | Algernon Swinburne | Algernon Swinburne | Les Noyades | |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of t... | Algernon Swinburne | Algernon Swinburne | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.' | Algernon Cecil | | Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Quarterly Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Doctor's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's T... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The King's Tragedy | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Pa... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | . . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Tow... | George Sturt | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything sati... | Margaret Oliphant | George Eliot | Felix Holt the Radical | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offeri... | Margaret Oliphant | | [Advertisement of works by Lamartine] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am a... | Margaret Oliphant | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'. | Margaret Oliphant | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as... | Margaret Oliphant | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ... | Margaret Oliphant | Swinburne | Threnody | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'. | Margaret Oliphant | | [Italian] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one... | Margaret Oliphant | Walter Scott | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I tho... | Margaret Oliphant | R.T. Davison | Life of Archibald Campbell Tait | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to t... | Margaret Oliphant | John Addington Symonds | Life of Symonds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'. | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of ... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Caird | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' | Margaret Oliphant | | Athenaeum | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' | Margaret Oliphant | unknown | Review of Adam Bede | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | ?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton | St Stephen's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Leg... | Maggie Oliphant | A.B. Jameson | Legends of the Saints | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...]... | Margaret Oliphant | R.H. Story | | Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possi... | Margaret Oliphant | A.W. Kinglake | Invasion of the Crimea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of ... | G. H. Hardy | Marie Corelli | Ardath | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you... | Margaret Oliphant | David Wingate | My Little Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of Yo... | George Duke of York | Marie Corelli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | " ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..." | Gilbert Frankau | Nat Gould | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birt... | Gladys Teal | Marie Stopes | [book on birth control] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli... | Margaret Powell | Marie Stopes | [book on sex] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli... | Margaret Powell | Havelock Ellis | [book on sex] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ell... | Margaret Powell | | Kama Sutra | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856:
?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthu... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...' | King Kalakava | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. F... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher | A School History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter ... | George Gissing | George Moore | Esther Waters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".' | George Bernard Shaw | St Paul | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' | George Bernard Shaw | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' | George Bernard Shaw | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1... | George Bernard Shaw | Henry James | The Saloon | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | " ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe." | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded... | Mary Augusta Ward | J. Henry Shorthouse | John Inglesant | |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Milner | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Xenophon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dis... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Fenelon | Dialogues of the Dead | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Boccacio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Oscar Wilde | Ballad of Reading Gaol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Alfred Lord Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | | Straight and Crooked Thinking | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Sa... | George Murray Smith | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the... | John Gibson Lockhart | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed ... | George Fox | | Quaker correspondence | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | 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 | Herbert George Wells | [unknown] | 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 | John Rodrigo Dos Passos | [unknown] | 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 | John Steinbeck | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] fo... | Margaret Cole | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-mor... | Margaret Cole | | The Girl's Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Sarah Lewis | Woman's Mission | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos... | Mary St Leger Harrison | | philosophical texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos... | Mary St Leger Harrison | | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' | George Douglas Campbell | | poetry | |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' | Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower | | poetry | |
| 1850-1899 | "Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..." | Angela Brazil | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | |
| 1850-1899 | " .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain ... | Mary Augusta Arnold | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'". | Mary Augusta Arnold | | Texts in/on early Spanish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ... | Margaret Cole | J. A. Hobson | The Science of Wealth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ... | Margaret Cole | H. G. Wells | New Worlds for Old | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ... | Margaret Cole | H. G. Wells | The First Men in the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who s... | Margaret Smith | | Votes for Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Jane Porter | The Scottish Chiefs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Samuel Smiles | LIfe and Labour | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | | ['Penny Bloods'] | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | George Eliot [pseud] | | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | George Eliot | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled t... | George Acorn | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or pa... | George Acorn | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Robert Southey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Cullen Bryant | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific | 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 |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | | [Wesleyan magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | | [battle histories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ... | General James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| 1800-1849 | "Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's ... | Walter Savage Landor | | Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | " ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | Lloyd | Lloyd's Penny Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | William Cobbett | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | French without a Master | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | [English history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | [Roman history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | [Grecian history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read... | Gerald Massey | | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read... | Gerald Massey | | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Tom Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Volney | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Howitt | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Louis Blanc | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.? | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Robert Southey | Thalaba | 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 | Elizabeth Montague | [essay on Shakespeare] | 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 | unknown | History of James I | 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 | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa... | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.
The second in January and the begin... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as wel... | James Leigh Hunt | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te... | John Gibson Lockhart | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and in... | Thomas Frognall Dibdin | | Illustrated Chatterton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses William George Thompson's annotations to Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith (inclu... | William George Thompson | Joanna Southcott | The Strange Effects of Faith | |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Serm... | clergyman | Henry Blunt | Sermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | T. J. Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous ... | Granville Sharp | Samuel Estwick | Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally bel... | James Leigh Hunt | William Wycherley | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | anon | [Deadeye Dick stories] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Henry James | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | George Steevens | Thomas Percy | annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691) | |
| 1700-1799 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | George Steevens | William Oldys | annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691) | |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv... | Gabriel Harvey | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv... | Gabriel Harvey | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv... | Gabriel Harvey | Juan Luis Vives | Commentary to St Augustine, De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading of Lambert Daneau's... | Gabriel Harvey | Lambert Daneau | Politicorum aphorismorum silva | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotati... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Art of War | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | [MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but di... | Gabriel Harvey | George Gascoigne | The Posies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often... | Virginia Woolf | | Times Literary Supplement, The | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always exc... | Gwen Raverat | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki... | Gwen Raverat | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; bo... | Gwen Raverat | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying... | Gwen Raverat | Thomas Bewick | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on... | Gwen Raverat | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which show... | Peggy Turner | | The Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Cl... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.' | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Ha... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.' | Peggy Turner | | unknown sermon | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.' | Peggy Turner | | The Freeholder | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it mu... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen... | Magdalene Sharpe Erskine | Alexander Macaulay | A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave hi... | Gwen Raverat | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | William Shakespeare | [Histories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | (ed.) Thomas Percy | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Gwen Raverat's father] was disgusted by Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" when I lent it to him; though I am still su... | George Darwin | Stendhal (pseud -Marie-Henri Beyle) | Le Rouge et le Noir | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort... | Gwen Raverat | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Daisy Chain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort... | Gwen Raverat | Susan Warner | The Wide Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | Robert Browning | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | | Bible, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had aske... | Hugh Walpole | Arnold Bennett | 'New Age' articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'
| Algernon Methuen Marshall | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.' | George Eliot [pseud] | 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.' | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | 'Kestner letters' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Franz Liszt | [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying Dutchman] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a... | George Eliot (pseud) | Franz Liszt | [article on Meyerbeer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a... | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Wahlverwandtschaften | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Denis Diderot | Le Nevue de Rameau | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] | Egmont | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Great Hoggarty Diamond | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first r... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gross Cophta | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstra... | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Moore | Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea... | George Eliot [pseud] | possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz | [if this Gotz, then poetry] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Der Burgergeneral | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedictus de Spinoza | Ethics | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Carl Eduard Vehse | Der Hof zu Weimar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Me... | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | "Donna Clara" | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | poems | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Laocoon'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi | Briefe Uber Spinoza | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Nathan der Weise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine s... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Minna von Barnhelm | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Italianische Reise.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Fanny Lewald | Wandlungen | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johannes Scherr | Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte' | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson'... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [a farce] | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Euripides | Iphigenia | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Torquato Tasso | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | Die Gotter im Exil | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | [poems] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [discourse on Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [on Spinoza] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [draft of Life of Goethe] | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | De l'Allemagne | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He... | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | Der Salon | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud ... | George Henry Lewes | Thomas [?] Knight | [studies of Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f... | George Eliot [pseud] | Adolf Stahr | Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy' | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | [on German philosophy] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [Dr] Fischer | [a pamphlet] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, book M.S. |
| 1850-1899 | 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Hamburgische Briefe | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | West-Ostliche Divan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Adolf Stahr | Ein Jahr in Italien | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Georg Gottfried Gervinus | [on Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Romische Elegien | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Venetian Epigrams | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Karl Eduard Vehse | probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Reformation | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Richard III'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | part of the MS of his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Nathaniel Wraxall | Historical Memoirs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | MS of his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Sp... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare (and others) | The Passionate Pilgrim | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Leader" and Scherr'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [various] | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Macbeth".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Romeo and Juliet"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon | Nibelungen Lied | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Athenaeum"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Contemporary Literature | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johannes Scherr | [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur? | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Reineke Fuchs"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Reineke Fuchs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Schrader's German Mythology' | George Eliot [pseud] | Eberhard Schrader | [German Mythology] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Herbert Spencer | The Genesis of Science | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3 | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Cumming | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad, book II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Sand | Lucrezia Floriani | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | P. von Bohlen | Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Emanuel Swedenborg | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Meredith | The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Kingsley | The Greek Heroes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Karl Friedrich August Kahnis | [history of German Protestantism - title unclear] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Heinrich (?) Riehl | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Masson | [essay on the Life of Chatterton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud] | David Masson | 'The Three Devils' | Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856 |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Richard Chenevix Trench | An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Pierre Beaumarchais | M?moires contre Goezman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: 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) | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: 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) | Harriet Martineau | [article on Missions in the Westminster Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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) | various | [articles in the National] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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) | W.H. Harvey | The Sea-side Book | Print: 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) | unknown | The Lover's Seat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have now taken up Quatrefages again.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau | [zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Honore de Balzac | The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."' | George Eliot [pseud] | Sophocles | Ajax | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace' | George Eliot [pseud] | Harriet Martineau | History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infid... | George Eliot (pseud) | Sara Hennell | Christianity and Infidelity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Agnes Catlow | Popular Field Botany | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot (pseud) | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot (pseud) | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'. | George Eliot (pseud) | John William Draper | Human Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read "Emma" in the evening.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".' | George Eliot (pseud) | George Eliot (pseud) | Janet's Repentance | Manuscript: MS of own work |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Aeschlyus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry Thomas Buckle | History of Civilization in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also... | Magdalene Erskine | Bernard de Montfaucon | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Die Familie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Land Und Volk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choe... | George Eliot (pseud) | George Eliot (pseud.) | Adam Bede | Manuscript: MS of own novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choe... | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus | Choephorae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | anon. | [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | Charles Dickens | The Haunted Man | Print: Unknown, could have been book or serial |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus | Eumenides | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentim... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | History of the Thirty Years Peace | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.' | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Prometheus" in the morning'. | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus [?] | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Horace | The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas Carlyle | Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Miche... | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on s... | Agnes Halkerston | James Duncan | Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of C... | George Eliot (pseud) | Flouren | [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) | Auguste Comte | Catechism Of Positive Religion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ, The (?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested... | George Eliot (pseud) | John Bunyan | unknown | 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquit... | Margot Asquith | Margot Asquith | Diaries | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376... | Magdalene Erskine | Mariano Vasi | Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interes... | George Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. bet... | Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after th... | George Pitts | James Hall | Travels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides: containing hints and improvements in agriculture and commerce... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to ... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Ja... | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.' | George Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' | [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' | [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in "Tait", and one day, at his req... | G H Girle | G H Girle | [memoirs] | Manuscript: Sheet, Unpublished memoirs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Cobbett | Advice to young men | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | George L. Craik | Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Tait | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | St Ronan's Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Lives of the players | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Sir Andrew Wyllie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Smiles | [biographies of men] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and i... | James Glass Bertram | James Lackington | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | Shepherd's Calendar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Bentley's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo... | James Glass Bertram | Robert Chambers | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened... | James Glass Bertram | Mrs Johnstone | The Schoolmaster | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse | "Vier Neue Novellen" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henri Marc-Bonnet | "Histoire des Ordres Religieux" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | T.A. Trollope | La Beata | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Franco Sachetti | Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | W.G. Tenneman | Manual of the History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 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.] | unknown | Le Moyen Age Illustre | Print: 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 | 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Montalambert | The Monks of the West | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Audin de Rians | [Introduction to Savonarola's Poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte on the Middle Ages' | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [on the Middle Ages] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache' | George Eliot [pseud] | Anthony Trollope | Orley Farm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Ernest Renan | ?tudes d?histoire religieuse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Buhle | Textbook on the History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [MS article on Mad Dogs] | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry Hallam | [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning' | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Gibbon | [on revival of Greek learning] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Savonarola's Sermons' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermons] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Discourse on Government | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on the Epistle of John] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good st... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anton Francesco Doni | I Marmi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni Boccaccio | [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | anon | Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot | Jacopo Nardi (probably) | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'. | George Eliot | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Francesco Sachetti | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'. | George Eliot | Burlamacchi | Life of Savonarola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Pulci'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | [probably] Luigi Pulci | [if this Pulci, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni (?) Villani | Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] | Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secolo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Joseph Pettigrew | Medical Superstitions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.' | George Eliot | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Daniel Rock | Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Manni | [Life of Burchiello] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Daniel Rock | Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marchese | Storia di San Marco | Print: Book |
| 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.] | unknown | Archivo Storico | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Vespasiano da Bisticci | [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV, | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ginguene in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Pierre Louis Ginguene | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Lewes | [compositions] | Manuscript: Unknown, compositions |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Nerli'. | George Eliot | unknown | Nerli | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot | [probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Machiavelli's works'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Pasquale Villari | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Donato Giannotti | Della repubblica fiorentina | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' | George Eliot [pseud] | Cicero | De Officiis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' | George Eliot | Francesco Petrarch | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Selden | Titles of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Amans-Alexis Monteil | [presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger | La Tancia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Pierre Louis Ginguene | [possibly] Histoire litteraire d'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Lillie Craik | History of English Literature and the English Language | Print: Book |
| 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] | Juvenal | [a satire] | Print: Book |
| 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 | Epictetus | Enchiridion | Print: Book |
| 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] | Luigi Pulci | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 Carnascialeschi | Print: Book |
| 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] | Manni | Veglie Piacevole | Print: Book |
| 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] | Theocritus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [Sixth Satire] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel' | George Eliot [pseud] | Goldwin Smith | [answer to Mansel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''In the evening Bekker's Charikles' | George Eliot [pseud] | Bekker (or Becker?) | Charikles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedetto Varchi | [History of Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...' | George Eliot [pseud] | Humphrey Hody | De Graecis Illustribus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Mura... | George Eliot [pseud] | Scipioni Ammirato | Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Mu... | George Eliot [pseud] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | [unknown, on the Confraternita] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' | George Eliot [pseud] | Franco Sachetti | [probably] Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' | George Eliot [pseud] | Francesco Filelfo | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedetto Varchi | [History of Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | De Veritate Profetica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Conyers Middleton | Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren | [on the XVth Century] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Politian's Lamia' | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Malmantile' | George Eliot [pseud] | Malmantile | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [unknown -novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' | George Eliot [pseud] | Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) | [possibly a story from Le Cene] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Emile Du Bois Reymond | [book on Johannes Mueler] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Istorie fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Diary of a late physician | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Ten thousand a year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoo... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | "Madeleine in Church" | Unknown |
| 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 | 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"' | George Eliot | George Finlay | A History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | La Mandragola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena | La Calandra | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Romola | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point an... | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [probably] Morgante | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Conquest in America, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades' | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich von Sybel | History and Literature of the Crusades | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Casa Guidi Windows | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Christopher Wordsworth | Greece | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Poetes Latins de la Decadence | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". T... | George Eliot [pseud] | Meiner | [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Processi | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio' | George Eliot [pseud] | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Il Principe".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Il Principe | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip... | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Stanze | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip... | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Orfeo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Romola | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science | Manuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Theodor Mommsen | [one of his Roman history works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Wetmore Story | Roba di Roma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry George Liddell | A History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourage... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | The Spanish Gipsy | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of own work |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Prescott again and made notes' | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] William Prescott | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Aeschlyus | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Philip Wentworth Buckham | Theatre of the Greeks | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Julius Leopold Klein | Geschichte des Dramas | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Annual Register, The | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [possibly] William Blackstone | [Commentaries on the laws of England?] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [English history in reign of George III] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Henry Lewes | [article on Grote's Plato] | Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu | Contes populaires des anciens Bretons | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".' | Reginald Heber | Felicia Dorothea Browne | War and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fifteen | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'. | Augusta Leigh | Lady Caroline Lamb | [letters and verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud] | Fawcett | Economic Condition of the Working Classes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Friedrich Strauss | Life of Jesus [second version] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Neale | History of the Puritans | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Bible' | George Eliot [pseud.] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Hallam's Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henry Hallam | The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [perhaps] History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | A System of Logic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Felix Holt | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Friedrich Bouterwek | Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | [unknown - on Spain] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Georges Bernard Depping | [unknown - on Spain] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Juan Antonio Llorente | [Spanish history] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Georges Depping | Juifs au Moyen Age | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Geoffrey Chaucer | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ernest Renan | Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiques | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Ticknor | History of Spanish Literature | 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.] | Cornewall Lewis | Astronomy of the Ancients | 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.] | Simon Ockley | History of the Saracens | 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.] | unknown | Los Judios en Espana | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Percy (ed.) | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Isis | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Iliad, book III'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Henry Prescott | History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ernest Renan | Averroes et l'Averroisme | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Eliakim Carmoly | Histoire des M?decins Juifs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | First Principles | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Henry Lewes | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Salomon Munk | Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Guillemin | [presumably astronomy text] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Lubbock | Prehistoric Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Lucretius | De Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Warton | History of English Poetry, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Grote | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Marcus Aurelius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Auguste Comte | Syst?me de politique positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edwin Guest | History of English Rhythms, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Frederick Denison Maurice | Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [philology books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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.] | [Mrs] Grey | [Etruscan subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Dennis | Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Alchemist, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Bright | [Speeches] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | 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.] | John Bright | [4th speech on India] | 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.] | unknown | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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.] | W Thomson | [essay in Revue des Cours] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Matthew Arnold | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that n... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Bright | [speech on Ireland and Church Establishment] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that n... | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'. | George Henry Lewes | [unknown] | Seraphime | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hermann von Helmholtz | [book on music] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | [books on plants] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot [pseud] | Lucretius | De Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Victor Hugo | L'Homme Qui Rit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Willhelmine von Hillern | Ein Arzt der Seele | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Co... | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Ancient Geography | 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] | Smith | Universal History | 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] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | 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] | Vegetable World, The | 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] | Michael Drayton | Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy | 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] | Michael Drayton | Polyolbion | 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] | George Grote | [probably] History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes' | George Eliot [pseud] | Louis Reybaud | Etudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes modernes | Print: 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 | 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' | George Eliot [pseud] | Emile Littre | [on Comte] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot | Theocritus | 22nd Idyll | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Dickson | Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"' | George Eliot | Pierre Victor Renouard | History of Medicine | 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 | [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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | Rutherford Russell | History and Heroes of Medicine | 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] | Aristophanes | Ecclesiazusae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Bekker | Charikles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Mandeville (pseud.) | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot | Max Muller | History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Lecky | History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot [pseud] | Herbert Spencer | [probably] Principles of Psychology, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: ... | G., Dowager Lady Spencer | William Mason | Poems (third volume) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse ... | George Eliot [pseud] | William R. Grove | On the Correlation of Physical Forces | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Gibson Lockhart | Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | James Anthony Froude | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [correspondence with Valat] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Friedrich August Wolf | Prolegomena ad Homerum | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Paul (pseud.) | Leben des Quintus Fixlein | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [on Sicilian History] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856' | George Eliot [pseud] | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | "Principles of Success in Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [Social Function...] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Physical Basis of Mind, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work' | George Eliot [pseud] | | [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes] | Manuscript: Unknown, journal |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [journal, 1874] | Manuscript: Unknown, journal |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [various works Eliot was revising] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Spanish Drama, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's first article on Goethe' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [first article on Goethe] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Problem III' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'unable to read anything except "Times".' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Times, The | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe' | George Eliot [pseud] | W. Kingdom Clifford | First and Last Castrophe, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | [on socialism] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Spencer's Psychology' | George Eliot [pseud] | Herbert Spencer | Principles of Psychology | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read on the colour-sense' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [on colour sense] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hugo Magnus | Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Allen Grant | Colour Sense: its Origin and Development, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read my darling's M.S. on Language' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [on language] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Foster | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [article on Philosophy in France] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Re-read "Laws of Operation".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps) | [perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the Systematization of Mathematics | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's st... | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Herzen | La Condizione fisica della Coscienza | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [essay on Dwarfs and Giants] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain (?) | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | [book IV - of Iliad?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Foster | Textbook of Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [probably] History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Biographical History of Philosophy, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederick Pollock | [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Caird | [probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Sully | [article on G.H. Lewes] | Manuscript: proof of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Voltaire (pseud.) | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Plato - Republic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic,The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Merritt (Mrs) | [recollections of her husband] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Hebrew texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Algebra] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Purgatorio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Grote on the Sophists'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [letters to George Eliot] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Albrecht Weber | History of Indian Literature, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Monier Williams' | George Eliot [pseud] | Monier Monier Williams | [presumably work on Sanskrit] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George John Romanes | Candid Examination of Theism, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Cornelis Petrus Tiele | Outlines of the History of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'. | George Eliot [pseud] | John Hill Burton | history of the reign of Queen Anne, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frances Anne Kemble | Records of a Girlhood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Jewish chronicles] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical... | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Prose Edda, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Malthus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Victor Hugo | Ruy Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Archibald Henry Sayce | [if this Sayce then work of Assyriology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Le Rond D'Alembert | Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [poems including 'The First Quarrel'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Margaret Oliphant | My faithful Johnny | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederic William Henry Myers | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | M. G. Lewis to Lady Charlotte Bury, 9 December 1810: 'I have galloped through two volumes of Madame du Deffand's Lette... | M. G. Lewis | Madame du Deffand | Letters (2 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be w... | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Locke | Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 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 | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 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 | Jean Charles de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 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 | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 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 | Watson | [book on Philip of Spain] | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Coxe | History of the House of Austria | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Coxe | Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain | Print: Book |
| 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 | Rene Aubert de Vertot | [book(s) on Revolutions] | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Southey | Roderick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown Darwin | [article on 'Diseased Volition'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | John Henry, Cardinal Newman | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Walter Pater | Imaginary Portraits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Algernon Charles Swinburne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was ... | Gabriel Harvey | Geoffrey Chaucer | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | | Roman texts | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Sturm | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Manutius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Osorius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Sigonius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Buchanan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | Works including On Friendship | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Osorius | Works including On Glory | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Sambucus | Ciceronianus | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Ramus | Ciceronianus | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Caesar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Varro | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Sallust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Pliny | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Columella | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's siste... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | anon | Howleglas | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | Skoggin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | John Skelton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | Lazarillo | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's Commonplace Book (Add.Ms., 32, 494 British Museum) contains transcribed quotations from "Cyvile and u... | Gabriel Harvey | | Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philolo... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | Topica | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's "Topica", of the German philologist Hegendorff's wr... | Gabriel Harvey | Hegendorff | Writings on law | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philolo... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel Harvey] bought and studied Guazzo's [italics]Civil Conversation[end italics] in the early 1580s.' | Gabriel Harvey | S. Stefano Guazzo | Civil Conversation | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia show that he studied Castiglione [...] with considerable care [...] In 1572 he acquired... | Gabriel Harvey | Baldassare Castiglione | The Book of the Courtier | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rheto... | Gabriel Harvey | Aristotle | Organon | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rheto... | Gabriel Harvey | Aristotle | Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close assoc... | Gabriel Harvey | Audomarus Talaeus | Academia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | Italian grammars | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | Spanish grammars | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | French grammars | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"]... | Gabriel Harvey | Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton | A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'In 1584 [Gabriel Harvey] had acquired [...] Hugkel's "Semeiotice", 1560, a medical text which bases its diagnoses on ... | Gabriel Harvey | Jacob Hugkel | Semeiotice | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broads... | Gabriel Harvey | anon | Broadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmaceuticals) of John Hester | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus]... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe... | Gabriel Harvey | Frontinus | The stratagemes | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe... | Gabriel Harvey | Frontinus | The stratagemes | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe... | Gabriel Harvey | Frontinus | The stratagemes | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567... | Gabriel Harvey | Thomas Wilson | The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | '[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summariz... | Gabriel Harvey | Thomas Blundevill | The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'In A. P. Gasser's "Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome" (1538) purchased by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1576, ar... | Gabriel Harvey | A. P. Gasser | Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'In George North's "Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland" (1561), on sig.G2r next to a textual discussion of ... | Gabriel Harvey | George North | Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and... | Gabriel Harvey | Lodovico Domenichi | Facetie, motti, et burle | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'An annotated copy of John Hart's "Orthographie" which undoubtedly belonged to [Gabriel] Harvey [...] is replete with ... | Gabriel Harvey | John Hart | An Orthographie | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'In Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido" (1591) [Gabriel] Harvey sometimes places a tiny letter symbol above a textual ... | Gabriel Harvey | Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'At the end of Sacchi de Platina's "Hystoria de Vitis pontificum" (c.1505) [Gabriel] Harvey adds his index of Popes an... | Gabriel Harvey | Sacchi de Platina | Hystoria de Vitis pontificum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'In [Gabriel Harvey's copy of] G. Breule's "Praxis Medicinae Theorica" (1585) on the front flyleaf is a manuscript ind... | Gabriel Harvey | G. Breule | Praxis Medicinae Theorica | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes annotations made by Gabriel Harvey in his copy of Joannis Foorth, "Synopsis Politica"(1582). | Gabriel Harvey | Joannis Foorth | Synopsis Politica | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'The date "1580" is inscribed by [Gabriel] Harvey on sig.Ss3v of the Florio volume ["First Fruites" (1578)] at the "Fi... | Gabriel Harvey | John Florio | Florio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tongues | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discorsi ("First Decade") | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'Although he read Rabelais and several other French authors in the original, it is unlikely that [Gabriel] Harvey's ma... | Gabriel Harvey | Francois Rabelais | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and R... | Gabriel Harvey | Antonio de Corro | Spanish Grammer | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and R... | Gabriel Harvey | Richard Perceval | Bibliotheca Hispanica | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'On sig. AIv of [John] Blundevill, ["The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship"], [Gabriel] Harvey inscribe... | Gabriel Harvey | John Astley | The Art of Riding | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Arte of Warre | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive... | Gabriel Harvey | Peter Whitehorne | Certain wayes for the ordering of Soldiours | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Vegetius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Sutcliff | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Heinrich Rantzau | Commentarius Bellicus ... praecepta, consilia et stratagemata | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Marco Antonio Gandino | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Carlo Theti | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Digges Stratioticos | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Sir Roger Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152... | Gabriel Harvey | Joannis de Sacrobosco | Textus de Sphaera | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152... | Gabriel Harvey | Bonetus de Lates | Annuli ... super astrologiam | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152... | Gabriel Harvey | Euclid | First book of geometry | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence"... | Gabriel Harvey | John Blagrave | The Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called ... The use of which Jewel ... leadeth ... through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes ... | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of ci... | Gabriel Harvey | Luca Gaurico | Tractatus Astrologicus | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Eunapius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Tacitus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Philostratus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Julian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Theodore Zwinger | Theatrum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Theocritus | "Idyll I" | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Bion | epitaphs | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Adonis | epitaphs | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Hesiod | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | ''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di divers... | Gabriel Harvey | Solomon | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and... | Gabriel Harvey | Barnabe Barnes | Parthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals, elegies and odes. | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium ... | Gabriel Harvey | Joannes Boccatius | Compendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintum, & jam primum in lucem editum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes that, in Gabriel Harvey's copy of William Bourne, "A Regiment for the Sea" (1592; inscribed 15... | Gabriel Harvey | William Bourne | A Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men and travailers; whereunto is added an Hydrographicall discourse touching the five severall passages to Cattay | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes 'Many underlinings and MS. notes' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of George Buchanan, "Ane admonition... | Gabriel Harvey | George Buchanan | Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie M.G.B. ... accordyng to the Scottish copie Printed at Strivilyng by Robert Lekpreuik | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February]... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February]... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes that in Gabriel Harvey's 1563 copy of Cicero, "Epistolae ad Atticum" 'The glossary is divided ... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quinctum Fratrem, Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | Bring flowers | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | The season of death | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Hemans | The voice of spring | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | George Gordon, Lord Byron | When coldness wraps this suffering clay | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on an Idiot | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know wh... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Thomas] [Moore] | [The Blue Stocking] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron] | [Don Juan - Canto the Third] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Beresford | [On vaccination] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Montgomery | Night | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [Translation of an Arabic Ode] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [The Ton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] [Burns] | [Lady Mary Anne] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Ode to the closing year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.' | George Canning | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | The grave of a poetess | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisan... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]? | [Adieu] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Dr Clark | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His sold... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | The record | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Maria Tighe | The lily | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | George Croly | Evening's daughter | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a pi... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | The Troubadour [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [On Friendship] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | H. Smith | Country and Town | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine | [L'Homme] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines on Home | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He trea... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Henry Neele | The comet | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The illuminated city | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The forest sanctuary | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [unknown] | Poesie di Ossian | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Mary] [Tighe] | The old Maid's prayer to Diana | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] [Pollock] | The Course of Time [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | The Dead and the Living [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | William Wordsworth | [The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | My Birthday | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | To my mother | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Resignation | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Joseph Addison | [Spare Time] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Journal of an Annuyee | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] Southey | [The curse of Kehama, canto X] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come i... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Walter] [Scott] | [The monastery] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy belo... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | [Kindred hearts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Malcolm | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | Matilde a novel | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels th... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | G.I. C..... | The Eve of the Battle | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | A Highland Salute to the Queen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The Star of Missions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text]... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Innes[?] | Lines on Mountghaine [?] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lock... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Luis Baylon | Farewell to the Year | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of s... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Maria] Abdy | Worsted work | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | M. Vicary | Lines | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The dead friend | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Mackintosh | Adieu | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles] | To one at rest | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, h... | King George III | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Luc... | Augusta Bramston | Dr Edward Jenner | pamphlet on the cow pox | |
| 1800-1849 | 'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."' | George or Edward Carey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'To A Lady Weeping' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Written Beneath a Picture' 'Dear object of defeated care!/...' 'R.G.C. 1835' | 'R.G.C.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lines Written Beneath A Picture | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [mino... | Edward or George Carey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | On Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love" | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'They tell us of an Indian tree/...' | Margaret Maingay [?] | Thomas Moore | 'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' -... | Margaret Maingay [?] | George Gordon, Lord Byron | To [George, Earl Delawarr] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22] | Margaret Maingay [probably] | Josiah Conder | Home | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart)... | Margaret Oliphant | Horatio Forbes Brown | John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled from | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On seeing some Autumn Flowers' 'Those few pale autumn flowers, How beautiful they are!...' 'L.G. Feb 1831' | 'L.G.' | Caroline Anne Bowles | Autumn Flowers | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [..... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy (Titus Livius) | History of Rome Book XIII | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathet... | [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But, and it is a big but, I am aware that this opinion has been formed only by reading such books as Louis Goldings' ... | Geoffrey Gorer | Lewis Goldings | Jewish Problem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'. | Eugenia Wynne | Hernan Cortes | Cartas de relacion [??] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'. | Agathe Wynne | William Beckford | Vathek | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.' | Agathe Wynne | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | L'amour maternelle | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the be... | Agathe Wynne | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | Zelie | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".' | Agathe Wynne | [unknown] | L'Ami des Enfants | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Eugenia Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 1st January,
Completed my paper on Mazzini.
Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap)
... | Gerald Moore | J.W. Marriott | One Act Plays of Today | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 2nd January,
Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother.
Read: ?Plain ... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 7th January,
Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture.
Smith does not expect to le... | Gerald Moore | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 9th January,
Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking ... | Gerald Moore | Belfort Bax | Essays on Socialism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 16th January,
Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer... | Gerald Moore | J. Ramsay Macdonald | Socialism: Critical and Constructive | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 27th January,
Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bur... | Gerald Moore | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday,28th January,
?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I supp... | Gerald Moore | Leonard Merrick | A Chair on the Boulevard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 29th January,
I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. A... | Gerald Moore | Henrik Ibsen | Brand | Print: Book |
| 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, 3rd February,
Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint ... | Gerald Moore | Isaac Walton | The Compleat Angler | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th February,
Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick.
Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati... | Gerald Moore | Robert Herrick | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th February,
Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick.
Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati... | Gerald Moore | E. Phillips Oppenheim | The Great Impersonation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 10th February,
Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates.
Read ?Omoo? (Melville)'
| Gerald Moore | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 11th February,
Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound... | Gerald Moore | Matthew Prior | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday,13th February,
Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' | Gerald Moore | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 15th February,
Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnifice... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Barry Lindon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 19th February,
Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immen... | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Path to Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 21st February,
Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with th... | Gerald Moore | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | J.J. Bell | Thread o' Scarlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | Dunsany | A Night in the Sun | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | The Monkey's Paw | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | Lady Gregory | The Rising of the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Four Georges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 2nd March,
Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeti... | Gerald Moore | Villehardouin | Memoirs of the Crusades | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 5th March,
I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th March,
Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan presiden... | Gerald Moore | Rupert Brooke | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 9th March,
Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson.
The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Ro... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 14th March,
Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 17th March,
Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O.... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 22nd March,
Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'
| Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | The Eye-Witness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 24th March,
Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up... | Gerald Moore | Joseph Conrad | Almayer's Folly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th March,
Discussion Group ? annual meeting.
Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).' | Gerald Moore | Alphonse Daudet | Tartarin sur les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 29th March,
A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Holmes | The Tragedy of Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 30th March,
Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players ... | Gerald Moore | Honore de Balzac | La Peau de Chagrin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 2nd April,
Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find mys... | Gerald Moore | Robert Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 5th April,
I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | As you Like it | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 7th April,
Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-healt... | Gerald Moore | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 11th April,
Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging... | Gerald Moore | J.B. Priestley | Figures in Modern Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 13th April,
Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehe... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | 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 | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 20th May
The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaust... | Gerald Moore | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 28th May
The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c... | Gerald Moore | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 28th May
The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c... | Gerald Moore | | New Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 3rd June
?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis)
I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on han... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Our Mr Wrenn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 4th June
?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis).
How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hunger... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Martin Arrowsmith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 20th June
? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'. | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | Short History of the World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 22nd June
?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte)
Wednesday 23rd June
A quiet day today and then last ... | Gerald Moore | Bret Harte | Jack Hamlin's Mediation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 24th June.
?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram).
Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see th... | Gerald Moore | R.H. Mottram | The Spanish Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 24th June
?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram)
Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ... | Gerald Moore | | Daily Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 26th June
?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'. | Gerald Moore | Percy Wyndham Lewis | At the Sign of the Black Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 30th June.
?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay).
Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 1st July
This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 2nd July
Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed t... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 5th July
I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 6th July.
?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair).
Back to the office today and find that young Reid has ... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | Mr Waddington of Wyck | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 7th July.
?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'. | Gerald Moore | J.B. Priestley | The English Comic Character | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 8th July
I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very ... | Gerald Moore | St Francis of Assissi | Little Flowers of St Francis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 10th July
?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.
| Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 12th July.
I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that ... | Gerald Moore | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 19th July
?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge)
This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading ... | Gerald Moore | William Pett Ridge | Story Teller in London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 22nd July.
?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley).
I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it d... | Gerald Moore | Reg Berkeley | Unparliamentary papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 25th July.
?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West).
A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as inte... | Gerald Moore | Rebecca West | Return of the Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 29th July
?Sybil? ? (Disraeli)
[...]
I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'Saturday 31st July.
?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'.
| Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 1 August.
?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold).
To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend... | Gerald Moore | Walter Jerrold | A Book of Famous Wits | 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 | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 3rd August.
?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'. | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Pongo and the Bull | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 7th August
?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'. | Gerald Moore | George Moore | The Untilled Field | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 9th August.
?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson).
Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I... | Gerald Moore | H.W. Nevinson | Between the Acts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 16th August
?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse).
I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 16th August
?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse).
I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 19th August
?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'. | Gerald Moore | Walter Besant | For Faith and Freedom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 23rd August
I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the... | Gerald Moore | Edna Lyall | To Right the Wrong | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 23rd August
I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the... | Gerald Moore | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 24 August
The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, ... | Gerald Moore | | Courier | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 26th August
Pope?s ?Dunciad?
This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nat... | Gerald Moore | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 27th August
I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former.
Why is Thackeray su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 2nd September
?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)' | Gerald Moore | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 7th September
?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 10th September
Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then... | Gerald Moore | Charles Kingsley | The Heroes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 12th September
?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'. | Gerald Moore | James Branch Cabell | Jurgen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th September
?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)' | Gerald Moore | C.E.M. Joad | Thrasymachus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 18th September
?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman)
I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues... | Gerald Moore | Xenophon/Plato | Socratic Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 20th September
?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)'
| Gerald Moore | Ashley Thorndike (ed.) | Minor Elizabethan Drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26th September
?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus?
A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. ... | Gerald Moore | "Bartimeus" | The Long Trick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 30th September
?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott)
Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusi... | Gerald Moore | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 4th October
?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.'
| Gerald Moore | unknown | The Golden Glory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 11th October
?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'. | Gerald Moore | Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 14th October
?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. | Gerald Moore | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 15th October.
Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 20th October.
Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 3rd November.
?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).'
| Gerald Moore | Henry N. Brailsford | War of Steel and Gold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 6th November.
?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair).
Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Moth... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | The Tree of Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6th November.
?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is ve... | Gerald Moore | J. Maynard Keynes | The End of Laissez Faire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 11th November.
?Opium-eater? again.'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 20th November.
I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless prop... | Gerald Moore | | New Leader | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 28th November
?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).' | Gerald Moore | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 7th December.
"Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'.
| Gerald Moore | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 9th December.
?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'.
| Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacob | The Castaways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th December
?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.
| Gerald Moore | Victor MacClure | The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 14th December.
?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'. | Gerald Moore | Sabine Baring-Gould | Cheap Jack Zita | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 17th December.
French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s cla... | Gerald Moore | Eugene Labiche | Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 18th December.
?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'. | Gerald Moore | Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne | The Rev. Captain Kettle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 20th December
?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland).
This is the first time I have managed to get hold ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Au dessus de la m?l | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 22 December.
I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous l... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Au dessus de la m?l | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 25th December.
?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper)
Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Ch... | Gerald Moore | Edward Whymper | Scrambles among the Alps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 27th December.
?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'.
| Gerald Moore | Mary Johnston | By Order of the Company | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1926]
'"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes),
"Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling),
"... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January- Saturday
I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep.
This might, thus, be an exempl... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '4th January ? Tuesday.
?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse.
A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, an... | Gerald Moore | Harold Brighouse | Captain Shapely | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5th January ? Wednesday.
I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, consider... | Gerald Moore | Gerald Moore | [list of books read in 1926] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '11th January, Tuesday.
?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse).
I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '11th January, Tuesday.
?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse).
I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ... | Gerald Moore | | Liverpool Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '13th January, Thursday.
?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse).
I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '18th January, Tuesday.
?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb)
I was up till late last night finishing ... | Gerald Moore | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '20th January, Thursday.
Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Mo... | Gerald Moore | George Eric Paterson | poems [unspecified] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '30th January, Sunday.
I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd February, Wednesday.
I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is... | Gerald Moore | Israel Zangwill | King of the Schnorres | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th February, Sunday.
We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken litt... | Gerald Moore | | Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First World War | Print: Book, Plaque |
| 1900-1945 | '18th February, Thursday.
The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through ... | Gerald Moore | | Advertisements in French | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | '19th February, Saturday.
The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had th... | Gerald Moore | | menu in French | Print: menu |
| 1900-1945 | '23rd February, Wednesday.
This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-col... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '26th February, Saturday.
Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read t... | Gerald Moore | | Le Sourire | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March, Thursday.
The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have al... | Gerald Moore | Claude Farr?re | Les Civilis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '19th March, Saturday.
Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.'
| Gerald Moore | Anatole France | Jocaste et le Chat Maigre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '29th March, Tuesday.
?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite.
30th March, Wednesday.
These last few days I have been readin... | Gerald Moore | V. Marguerite | La Gar?onne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th September 1928.
Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and someho... | Gerald Moore | Emile Zola | Une Page d'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '16th September 1928
I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to ... | Gerald Moore | Cecil Chesterton | History of the United States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhinelan... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | The Castaways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | Deep Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | Cecil Chesterton | The History of the United States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '19th September 1928 (Wednesday)
I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bri... | Gerald Moore | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '20th September 1928 (Thursday).
I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '22nd September 1928 (Saturday).
I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Letters of Travel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '22nd September 1928 (Saturday).
The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst pape... | Gerald Moore | | The New York American | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '28th September 1928 (Friday).
I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France... | Gerald Moore | Thomas Vladesco | [article on Henrik Ibsen] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '30th September 1928 (Sunday)
We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st October 1928 (Monday).
Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this gr... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd September 1928 (Tuesday)
Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd September 1928 (Tuesday)
Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought... | Gerald Moore | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '3rd October 1928 (Wednesday).
Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned hom... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Letters of Travel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th October 1928 (Saturday).
So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading
?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - tr... | Gerald Moore | Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol | Taras Boulba | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 13th October 1928.
After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. ... | Gerald Moore | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 15th October 1928
?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'.
| Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Vie de Tolstoy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th October 1928.
Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt... | Gerald Moore | H. Barbusse | La Clart | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '27th October 1928 (Saturday)
?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)' | Gerald Moore | Claude Anet | La Rive d?Asie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '30th October 1928.
I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ... | Gerald Moore | | Birkenhead Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '30th October 1928.
I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ... | Gerald Moore | | New Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January 1929 (Tuesday)
In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Meth... | Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '4th January 1929.
?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw'
| Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th January 1929.
After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by... | Gerald Moore | W.J. Locke | [?] The Usurper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '7th January 1929 Monday.
This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie.
?Beyond? Galswort... | Gerald Moore | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '8th January 1929
?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most ... | Gerald Moore | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '12th January 1929.
During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not ... | Gerald Moore | Henry Bordeaux | Robe de Laine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '13th February 1929
I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses ... | Gerald Moore | | Excelsior | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '16th February 1929.
?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)'
| Gerald Moore | Arthur W. Pollitt | The Enjoyment of Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th February 1929 (Sunday).
After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Les Amis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th February 1929 (Sunday)
Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Les Amis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th February 1929 (Sunday)
Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri... | Gerald Moore | Oscar Wilde | The Portrait of Dorian Gray | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '25th February 1929 (Monday).
Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow.
A quiet day, reading the papers... | Gerald Moore | | Le Temps | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '26th February 1929.
No paper today owing to state of finances. From Friday?s ?Journal? I note that the historic Ta... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '27th February 1929.
Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty.... | Gerald Moore | | Le Matin | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '3rd March 1929.
At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arr... | Gerald Moore | | [Road sign] | Print: Road sign |
| 1900-1945 | '5th March 1929.
Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine... | Gerald Moore | Pierre Benoit | Atlandide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '7th March 1929.
Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).'
| Gerald Moore | Maxime | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '12th March 1929
Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.'
| Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '14th March 1929
?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our so... | Gerald Moore | Maxime Gorki | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '14th March 1929.
I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, an... | Gerald Moore | Walt Whitman | Song of the Open Road | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Brooks | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Artemus Ward | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Sketches by Boz | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March 1929 (Sunday).
Slept until 12 !
In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ... | Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March 1929 (Sunday).
Slept until 12 !
In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ... | Gerald Moore | | Punch, or the London Charivari | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '20th March 1929.
Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)' | Gerald Moore | Maxime Gorki | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '21st March 1929.
?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' | Gerald Moore | Anatole France | Le Petit Pierre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '23rd March 1929 (Saturday).
Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afte... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Goncourt | La Faustin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th March 1929 (Sunday).
Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire ... | Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Hood | 'We watched her breathing through the night --' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | The Earl's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton Parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but thoug... | Eugenia Wynne | Bernardin de St Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ... | Eugenia Wynne | John Shore | [elegies on deaths of wife and child] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ... | Eugenia Wynne | William Henry Lyttelton | [probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747 | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b... | Eugenia Wynne | William Robertson | The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince ... | Eugenia Wynne | [n/a] | [English newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is v... | Eugenia Wynne | Christoph Martin Wieland | Agathon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845:
'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Article on the Jesuits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Oxford and Cambridge Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846:
'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Cecilia Tilley | Chollerton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846:
'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Tales on the Game Laws | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846:
'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Alison | accounts of Napoleon's battles | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubin... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | Life of Southey | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850:
'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Pusey | two sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | pamphlets | |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Paul | Epistle to the Hebrews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]:
'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles de Remusat | 'French Essays on Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868:
'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire | Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach:
'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia] | Print: loose slip of paper |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire:
'I h... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Richard Rowe | Episodes in an Obscure Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor 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 | 'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a ve... | Eugenia Wynne | Thomas Skinner Surr | A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life":
'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and n... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | 'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]:
'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Fanny Kemble | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Trench | sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life":
'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morr... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | ?Maria ?Edgeworth | 'To-morrow' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the
correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jane Taylor | The Contributions of Q.Q. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One berth was occupied by George Day... He appeared to be always humble, always contented and resigned, always gratef... | George Day | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of... | Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' | n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Giovanni Perrone | Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861:
'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica | |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a frie... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | [novel] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a ... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs.
She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is some... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by
Elizabeth Missing Sewell ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Susan Glaspell | Road to the Temple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | C.E. Montague | Right off the Map | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Rose Macauley | Keeping Up Appearances | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Olwen Ward Campbell | Shelley and the Unromantics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be ve... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Carl Van Vechten | Nigger Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Rebecca West | The Strange Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Oswald Spengler | Decline of the West | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de Chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Ro... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Berg... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Julian Benda | Belphegor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and k... | Winifred Agnes Moore | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 | unknown | Mahatma Gandhi | Print: Book |
| 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 | Katherine Mayo | Mother India | Print: 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 | unknown | Oakroyd | Print: 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 | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 | Theodore de Banville | Gringoire | Print: 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 | unknown | Le Blois Vert | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Margaret Steen | Matador | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Oliver Onions | The Open Secret | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha... | Winifred Agnes Moore | John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Arthur Cecil Pigou | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me i... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Montague | D?senchantement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Gabouis | Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Francois Mauriac | Les Anges Noirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Alexander Werth | Before Munich | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Deladier | [collection of speeches] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Paul Maraud | Rond Point des Champs Elys?es | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Philip Carr | The French at Home | Print: 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 | unknown | Life of Turgot | Print: 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 | Albert Guerard | French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages | Print: 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 | unknown | Life of Orage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provenc... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Ford Madox Ford | Provence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ev... | Winifred Agnes Moore | A.L. Bacharach | The Musical Companion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it thr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Leon Daudet | Clemenceau | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? w... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Havelock Ellis | From Rousseau to Proust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | D.W. Brogan | The Development of Modern France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Edna Ferber | A Peculiar Treasure | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lindley Murray | English grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen:
'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely per... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen:
'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lor... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | New Testament Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Matthew | Matthew 2:1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mangall | Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joyce | Scientific Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lady Barker | Letters from New Zealand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Kennan | Tent Life in Siberia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. A. Froude | Short Essays on Great Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Count Beugnot | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'C... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Frederick William Robinson | Christie's Faith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. G. Sharp | Culture and Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.G. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.D. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.M. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.R. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.G. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfort... | S.G. | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from schoolmaster's journal:
G.B., aged 30: 'on his admission, began by repeating several of the Psalms; he t... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'G.B., 30, Reg. no 388. - A convicted felon, who had been in another prison for a similar of... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
G.B., 30, Reg. no. 388: 'This prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonmen... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827:
'As we were going down the ... | Lady Margaret Maria Cocks | Charlotte Anley | Miriam; Or, the Power of Truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | St Chrysostom | 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839:
'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and s... | George Goodin Moulton-Barrett | Sir Edward Coke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840:
'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839:
'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote ou... | George Goodin Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Mary Russell Mitford | Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'Orville | Les Anecdotes Germaniques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's ... | George Ticknor | Dr. Channing | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's ... | George Ticknor | Catharine M Sedgwick | Hope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a w... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of... | Leigh Hunt | Mary Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | Richard Hengist Horne | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | George Barrett Hunter | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | [?] Catechism of the History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | Catechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Sarah Trimmer | Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Church Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this da... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mason | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Gottfried August Burger | Lenore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of m... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Book of Judges | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large por... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only du... | Eliazbeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have ta... | Eliazbeth Missing Sewell | Matthew Henry | Communicant's Companion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I 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 | Isaac Watts | Improvement of the Mind, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [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 | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | 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 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | [unknown] | 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 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived fr... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laetitia Hawkins | Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Tracts for the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charlotte Yonge | Daisy Chain, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales based on Church Catechism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Earl's Daughter, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling no... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | [a sermon] | 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 Langton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed s... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Cecilia Frances Tilley | Chollerton: A tale of our own times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Archibald Alison | History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They ce... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: 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 | J.W. Kaye | Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe | Print: 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 | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face | Print: 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 | Edward Bouverie Pusey | [Sermons] | Print: 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 | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Print: 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 | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844:
'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I ... | Richard Hengist Horne | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844:
'Do you happen to know anything of ... | Richard Hengist Horne | Wiliam Carleton | 'tales' (extracts) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844:
'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the... | Leigh Hunt | Richard Hengist Horne | A New Spirit of the Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28
September 1846 issu... | Henry Fothergill Chorley | | notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847:
'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the B... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the ... | George Warrington Steevens | unknown | unknown [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905:
'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have writt... | Virginia Stephen | | eighteenth-century texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing,
as was her habit du... | Virginia Stephen | Walter Savage Landor | Pericles and Aspasia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short
narratives, all apparentl... | Madge Vaughan | Virginia Stephen | short stories | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | Ernest Renan | Cahiers de Jeunesse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | Christina Rossetti | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906:
'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is ... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907:
'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm... | Virginia Stephen | Henry James | The American Scene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908:
'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling t... | Virginia Stephen | G. E. Moore | Principia Ethica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | | 'new novels' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913:
'[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ... | Virginia Woolf | George Meredith | letters | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant
form", but Virginia... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | Art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Insulted and Injured | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Merrick | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | | classical Greek literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | complete works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919:
'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triu... | Virginia Woolf | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Women in Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922:
'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922:
'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume com... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | The Judge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Rimbaud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925:
'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque... | Gwen Raverat | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Unknown, In proof copy |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926:
'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of E... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Raleigh | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927:
'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Knole and the Sackvilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929:
'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new r... | Virginia Woolf | Ronald Firbank | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929:
'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree ... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | Harriet Hume | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930:
'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a boo... | Hugh Walpole | Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'.
... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931:
'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them... | Virginia Woolf | Princess Daisy of Pless | From My Private Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | Ford Madox Ford | Thus to Revisit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931:
'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932:
'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I r... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Bowen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Axel Munthe | The Story of San Michele | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | Tobit Transplanted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas
1932. The first words of the ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933:
'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- ... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | short story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933:
'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seem... | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell | letter | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934:
'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Wel... | Virginia Woolf | | report of death of Sir George Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so ma... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [... | Virginia Woolf | Edith Wharton | A Backward Glance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936:
'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's
affair with the a... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Wright | Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes
Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929... | Virginia Woolf | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | Sido | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936:
'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937:
'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Memoires (vol 5) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936:
'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938:
'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo... | Virginia Woolf | Bernard Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938:
'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight,... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Frederick Cavendish | The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939:
'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940:
'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too ma... | Virginia Woolf | Shena, Lady Simon | paper on women and war | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | study on Virginia Woolf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940:
'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridg... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn... | Virginia Woolf | Benedict Nicolson | letter to Virginia Woolf | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it al... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Seducers in Ecuador | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'. | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fanny Kemble | 'Life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith.
The classics make the t... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Murray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty
& bright -- without a si... | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen | critical work on Pope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight
on until bedtime, ... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | The Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, &
the only tolerable history... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open
Dante or think of him wit... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine
into R.T. more closely [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up
tobacco, but now argues t... | Gerald Shove | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.' | Richard Reginald Harding | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a... | Virginia Woolf | George Crabbe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'. | Virginia Woolf | Ezra Pound | Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | John, Viscount Morley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred
upon an afternoon readi... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation
into the rest of th... | Roger Fry | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation
into the rest of th... | Roger Fry | Aristophanes | Lysistrata | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 27 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2
days ago at Lane End [...]... | Virginia Woolf | | notice of death of Sarah Emily Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's
sister-in-law] was announced.' | Virginia Woolf | George Otto Trevelyan | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hol... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas de Quincey | Impassioned Prose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The
Poetic... | Virginia Woolf | William Michael Rossetti | Memoir of Christina Rossetti | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night,
with [...] the English r... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | 'Bliss' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 7 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 | unknown | life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand thoug... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'. |
| 1900-1945 | '"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have h... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, pas... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | Empire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic Imperialism | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Roger Fry | Roger Fry | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.' | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-Foster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h... | Virginia Woolf | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Trachiniae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | 'reminiscences' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I h... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Burke | 'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | [journalism] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de La Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Gwendolyn Cecil | The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Cecil Torr | Small Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of Tennyson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of [?Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Crotchet Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Love Peacock | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye... | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Byron's Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterp... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de la Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be ab... | Margaret A. Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.' | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of E... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Gosse | Books on the Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can ... | Virginia Woolf | Leigh Hunt | The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a... | Roger Fry | Julien Benda | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, c... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation,... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Seldes | Review of James Joyce, Ulysses | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior wat... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman.... | Virginia Woolf | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or The Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read suc... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Richard Hakluyt | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Prosper Merimee | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Walter Scott | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | J. G. Lockhart | Life of Walter Scott | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Edward Gibbon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | unknown | biographical works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Ethel M. Dell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anyt... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | On the Lake | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 1923 diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Beatrice Webb | My Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after readi... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on readi... | Gerald Gould | unknown | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on readi... | Gerald Gould | Anton Chekhov | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopk... | Virginia Woolf | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how ... | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | C | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Collected Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came ba... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Clark | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a ... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Country Notes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Robert Bridges | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since Septem... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Scott | The Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of Taste | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'sporting memoirs' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first t... | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | French texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poo... | Virginia Woolf | Lytton Strachey | Elizabeth and Essex | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Viola Meynell | Alice Meynell. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Jenkins | Virginia Water | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | God: an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Jean Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I ... | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Biirrell | ?Collected Essays, 1880-1920 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | George Puttenham | The Arte of English Poesie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | William Webbe | A Discourse of English Poetrie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Commonplace Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Letter Book, 1573-1580 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which f... | Virginia Stephen | Richard Hakluyt | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.' | Virginia Woolf | | 'Lord Chaplin's life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since y... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Dodo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a st... | Virginia Woolf | Molly Hamilton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Infer... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beati... | Virginia Woolf | Rosamund Lehmann | A Note in Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | La Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Daniel Defoe | A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Archibald Hamilton Rowan | The Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | James Jeans | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | The Rev. John Skinner | The Journal of a Somerset Rector | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Queen Victoria | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' Before starting on the march we attended a service in the Mission Church[...].[Hugh]Ruttledge read the first lesson... | Hugh Ruttledge | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thoua... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lov... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Man Who Died | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | biographies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Hugh Walpole | Judith Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Science of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | Max Eastman | The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock... | Virginia Woolf | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Alexis de Tocqueville | Souvenirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Kilbracken | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | Pen Portraits and Reviews | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Douglas Ainslie | Adventures Social and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | 'novel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Letters of D. H. Lawrence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will co... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Wright | The Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.' | Virginia Woolf | R. Barry O'Brien | The Life of Charles Stuart Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Sacred Fount | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Creevey | The Creevey Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | Leopardi | [poem] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 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 | Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) muc... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt sett... | Virginia Woolf | Florence Hardy | Life of Thomas Hardy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Cust Faber | A Character Study of the Oxford Movement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'. | Virginia Woolf | Turgenev | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by C... | Virginia Woolf | Arsene Houssaye | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Yout... | Virginia Woolf | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Margot Oxford | More Memories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half as... | Virginia Woolf | Marguerite Steen | Hugh Walpole: A Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of... | Virginia Woolf | | announcement of death of Stella Benson | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was ther... | Virginia Woolf | Andrew Marvell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [B... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Berners | First Childhood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest de Selincourt | Dorothy Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | J. E. Neale | Queen Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of th... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Rock. A Pageant Play | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Ex-Detective Sergeant B. Leeson | Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | Preface, Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Pages de Journal, 1929-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Charles de Vigny | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | John Cowper Powys | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of Sarawak | Good Morning and Good Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Bonamy Dobree | Modern Prose Style | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Alice James | Alice James: Her Brothers -- Her Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | Edward Sackville-West | The Sun in Capricorn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | life of James Boswell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'.
| Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | Acts of the Apostles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl... | Virginia Woolf | Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | John Summerson | John Nash, Architect to King George IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Annie S. Swan | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more ra... | Virginia Woolf | Stephen Spender | The Destructive Element | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its pri... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Overing Sturgis | Belchamber | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has ju... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Aaron's Rod | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | The Letters of Katherine Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Stendhal | 'on Rome' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothin... | Virginia Woolf | Ruth Gruber | Virginia Woolf: A Study | |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Emily Hilda Young | Miss Mole | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Abbe Dunnet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | Jessie Chambers | D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | John Bailey | John Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and Diaries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Stephen | William Cowper | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | William Congreve | Love for Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Charles Mallett | Anthony Hope and His Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | John Ford | The Lover's Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Easdale | Middle Age: 1885-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row ... | Virginia Woolf | | Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Festing Jones | Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Greville | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'. | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Hardy | The Trumpet-Major | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | George Borrow | Wild Wales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Harry J. Greenwall | The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'. | Virginia Woolf | Peter Quennell | Byron. The Years of Fame | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c... | Virginia Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Colette | Mes Apprentisages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Moliere | Le Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | What Then Must We Do? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yes... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Spring | review of Virginia Woolf, The Years | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Readi... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Elle et Lui | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but ... | Virginia Woolf | Guy Chapman | Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new wo... | George Boyd | James Hogg | Three Perils of Man, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Birrell | Things Past Redress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'. | Virginia Woolf | Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse,... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Greek verse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire singl... | Virginia Woolf | Queenie Leavis | Review of Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Siegfried Sassoon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | valedictory editorial article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | Eugene Delacroix | Journal de Eugene Delacroix | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme th... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary (17 May 1932) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually ove... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mont Blanc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a c... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It start... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Edward Marsh | A Number of People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Rochefoucauld | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Adolf Hitler | Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Blaise Pascal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Pater | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting kn... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Andre Gide's Journal 1885-1939 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may ... | Virginia Woolf | Theophrastus | 'Characters' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scop... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivale... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | Group Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Ricketts | Self-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts, RA | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Herbert | Letters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembroke and his Circle, 1734-80 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Crabbe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural s... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Wiiliam Howitt | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are 'here today, & gone tomorrow', as the fat scullion maid said in some extract in Holland's Exercise book.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Holland | [Exercise book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on s... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Deserted House, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.'
['all this' refers... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Robert Southey | Doctor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received call... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Hour and the Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out wit... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the perso... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have jus... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Ho... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Catherine Crowe | Susan Hopley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, on... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [letter approving 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whol... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | [review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barton'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Carlyle, and when I am over-filled with thoughts arising from this book, I put it all aside, (or ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [encouraging letter about 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ... | Virginia Woolf | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | anon | mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Havelock Ellis | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost... | Virginia Woolf | A. B. Goldenveizer | Talks with Tolstoi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost... | Virginia Stephen | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot... | Virginia Woolf | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | G. K. Chesterton | Thomas Aquinas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. Ho... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Leslie Stephen | essay on Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in ... | Virginia Woolf | | Scrutiny | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London... | Virginia Woolf | F. L. Lucas | Studies French and English | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations again... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France vol.15 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | G. M. Trevelyan | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Final Edition, an Informal Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 'The Leaning Tower' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet mak... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiograph... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart.
'The foot less prompt to ... | Virginia Woolf | Matthew Arnold | Thyrsis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, L... | Virginia Woolf | anon | account of the Great Fire of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too slop... | Virginia Woolf | Desmond MacCarthy | Drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | La Porte Etroite | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Sam Greg | [remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Hugh Clough | Ambarvalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Espinasse | [prospectus] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [review of 'Margaret, a tale of the Real and the Ideal'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Sylvester Judd | Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfi... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Crawford, Lord Lindsay | Lives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is a... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [possibly] Discourses to Mixed Congregations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wro... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Kingsley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics] Is [end italics] Miss Jewsbury's review shallow? It looked to me very deep, but then I know I'm easily impo... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Geraldine Jewsbury | [unknown review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the p... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sor... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Maggie Bell | [MS. novel] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | W.C. DeVane | [review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Day'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it i... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Ho... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Caroline Emelia Stephen | Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that st... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Denison Maurice | [Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I ge... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Leader, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Whewell | Fraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pendennis] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Catherine Cuthbertson | Santo Sebastiano: or, The Young Protector | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got v... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | H. Morley | Palissy the Potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "North British Review"had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of "Ruth" in it. Who the deuce could have wr... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | North British Review [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Literary Gazette [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [various periodicals: reviews of Gaskell's 'Ruth'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yes! I did read that letter of 'First Hand'; - those letters inded, and I liked the whole tone and mode of expression... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [letter of a 'First Hand'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil bei... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Hood | 'Lady's Dream, The' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my good... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pam... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Joseph Kay | Condition of Poor Children in English and German Towns | |
| 1850-1899 | 'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) whi... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Perthes | Memoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religious and Political Life in Germany from 1789 to 1848 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmu... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Crossley | 'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Mrs Granville | [tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Tupling | Folious appearances. a consideration on our ways of lettering books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, lo... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duchess Eleanor'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I... | Walter Savage Landor | William Gaskell | Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Morley | 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anna Jameson | Commonplace Book of Thoughts, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully ju... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Household Words [?] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure beca... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Fairbairn | [remarks on 'North and South'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters to Ellen Nussey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters to W.S. Williams] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot te... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [book on Yorkshire] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: books |
| 1850-1899 | '[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Blake | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only suc... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Professor, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[in... | Virginia Woolf | R. H. Tawney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Francis Steegmuller | Flaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double Portrait | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Jacques Emile Blanche | More Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Last Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | | 'life of Erasmus' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Gerald Heard | Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of inte... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life,... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Professor, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. W... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesti... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Professor, The | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Fairbairn | [letter offering his opinion of Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | E.B. Eastwick ['ed'] | Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman : and his translations with his fellow-creatures | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Bombay Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Currer Bell [pseud.] | Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John W. Kaye | [possibly] Administration of the East India Company, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Malcolm | [possibly] Government of India, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printe... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Homeward Mail, The | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecat... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis James Child | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | [articles in the 'Atlantic Monthly' on India and an exhibition] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [article in the 'Atlantic Monthly'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Atlantic Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they beg... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Scenes from Clerical Life | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lucknow' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Atlantic Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Elder | Biography of Elisha Kent Kane | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Parton | Life and Times of Aaron Burr, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Parton | [Life of Barnum] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Pari... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Henry Egerton | Apercu Historique et genealogique | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [advertisement for the 'Psychological' magazine] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | [having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Hendschel | Telegraph | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wish... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Christian Karl Josias Bunsen | Lyra Germanica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Florence Nightingale | Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hosptal Administration of the British Army | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I tell [Mr Aide] my "honest opinion" of his [italics] first [end italics] volume at any rate: It introduces one just ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Mr Aide | Rita | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Amos Barton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | 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 Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received the copy of "Adam Bede" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to y... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | G.W. Dasent | Popular Tales from the Norse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Herbert Grey | Three Paths, The | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Helps | Friends in Council | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Daniel Defoe | [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 | 'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Robert Chambers | Domestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henrietta Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | Henrietta Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Brooke | Fool of Quality, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conject... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but M... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas de Quincey | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Complete Guide to the English Lakes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I me... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William White | Travel in Northumberland and the Border | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanl... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Historical Memorials of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Janet's Repentance | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Ellen Raynard | Missing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of The London Poor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Scenes from Clerical Life | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | 'Amos Barton' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Mahoney | [Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the persona of 'Father Prout'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Mahoney | [Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Makepeace Thackeray | Lovel the Widower | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Sk... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | All the Year Round [article] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her lette... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Madame Mohl | [review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame Recamier] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I k... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. T... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Annual Register | 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 Mori | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] an... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: 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 Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [German/English dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [Manchester newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Tyndall | Glaciers of the Alps, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art &... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | Notes of Travel and Study in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Edward Wilberforce | 'Purgatory' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Vaughan | Silex Scintillans | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Vaughan | They are all gone into the world of light | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [newspaper acconts of events in America in run up to Civil War] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | [paper on 'The Advantages of Defeat] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as ev... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more val... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Hamilton Aide | Carr of Carrlyon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I co... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Harrison | [MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in w... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wetmore Story | Cleopatra | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth C. Akers | Two Summers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [American newspaper extracts] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [Report of the Sanitary Commission] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Atlantic Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Pope | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which look... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Addington Symonds | Thoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I w... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Russell Lowell | Fireside Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Lever | Tony Butler | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Maggie Elliott | [story with title like 'Jem'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | Margaret Ruskin | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James R. Lowell | Fireside Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James R. Lowell | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James R. Lowell | Biglow Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [ita... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.' | Virginia Woolf | Euripides | The Bacchae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent,... | Virginia Woolf | Julia Mary Cartwright Ady | The Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.' | Virginia Woolf | Alice Stopford Green | Town Life in the Fifteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.' | Virginia Woolf | J.W. Mackail | Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.' | Virginia Woolf | Austen Henry Layard | Nineveh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "History of Music."' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | [History of Music] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.' | Virginia Woolf | Rhoda Broughton | Not Wisely but Too Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.' | Virginia Woolf | | The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Cox Bennett | Baby May and Other Poems on Infants | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Cox Bennett | Triumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Julius Hare | Guesses at Truth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Inquirer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "P... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (ve... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Ellen Nussey | [account of Anne Bronte's death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Par... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon | [unknown] | 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 | 'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave g... | Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Julia Kavanagh | [possibly] French Women of Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, -... | Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rime of the Ancient mariner, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'. | George Crabbe | | [Romances] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.' | George Crabbe | | [Novels and poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | | [Latin medical books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | | [botany books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | Gilbert Knowles | Materia medica botanica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'. | George Crabbe | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Maximes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [funeral address for Duke of Rutland] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becomi... | George Crabbe | Michael Drayton | Polyolbion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | Arthur Young | Six Month's Tour Through the North of England, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | William Marshall | Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; i... | George Crabbe | Johan Christian Fabricius | Systema entomologiae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticis... | George Crabbe | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with ... | George Crabbe | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Lower World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve... | George Crabbe | | Scotish Review, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve... | George Crabbe | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold a... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end canc... | George Crabbe | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Sympathy; a Poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Horace in London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Rejected Addresses | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or ... | George Crabbe | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845:
'Before I have half re[a]d through you... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Dramatic Romances and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]ite... | George Crabbe | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is co... | George Crabbe | Mary Leadbeter | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.' | George Crabbe | Edmund Malone | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | [present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!' | George Crabbe | Maria Graham | Journal of A Residence in India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'. | George Crabbe | Maria Edgeworth | [Dramas] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Fathe... | George Crabbe | Amelia Alderson Opie | Father and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover, and Other Poetical Pieces | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.' | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Tales from the Hall | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I as... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have p... | George Crabbe | Francis Jeffrey | [review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the ba... | George Crabbe | Henry Gally Knight | Alashtar, an Arabian Tale [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand ... | George Crabbe | Washington Irving | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.' | George Crabbe | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | Print: Book |
| 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 will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by som... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Patrick Keith | Systems of Physiological Botany | 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 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | 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 | Denis Chavis | Arabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments | 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 | Thomas Warton | History of English Poetry, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous... | George Crabbe | William Hazlitt | Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I ... | George Crabbe | Johann C. Spurzheim | Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I ... | George Crabbe | Abraham Scott | Calvinistic Doctrines Refuted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morni... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Morning Herald, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Gaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries | Print: Book |
| | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Reynolds | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few p... | George Crabbe | William Lisle Bowles | Parochial History of Bremhill, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | Edward Copleston | Inquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predestination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | John Newton | Cardiphonia, or Utterance of the Heart | 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 | 'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas... | George Crabbe | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?' | George Crabbe | Christopher Benson | Hulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulties; Twenty Discourses | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | [newspapers at time of Reform debate] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Lady Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Ellen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have n... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [sermons] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses tho... | George Barker | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Dejection: An Ode | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Edgar Woolf | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912:
'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolate... | Virginia Woolf | | The Strand Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913:
'After dinner Virginia read... | Virginia Woolf | | The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's ... | Giles Lytton Strachey | Lytton Strachey | Life of Cardinal Manning | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did n... | Augustus, Lord Fitzroy | Laetitia Pilkington | To The Hon. Colonel Duncombe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | 'A short while after he went down Stairs, he sent his Compliments up, and begg'd I would lend him a Book to amuse hims... | George Turnbull | Laetitia Pilkington | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I ventured to communicate to him [Dr Turnbull] Mr [italics] Walsh[end italics]'s Letter; the Doctor lifted up his Han... | George Turnbull | J. Walsh | [letter professing to be from Matthew Pilkington's lawyer] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [Mr Rooke tells LP] 'as I had, in the Shop, read your [italics] Apology for the Minister [end italics], I was greatly ... | George Rooke | Laetitia Pilkington | Apology for the Minister, An | |
| 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 | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | "memoir of Old Bloomsbury" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898:
'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir T... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Rutherford Crockett | The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Morgan Forster | "The Greek Feeling for Nature" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Nature Notes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899:
'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jabez Bunting Dimbleby | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Maurice Hewlett | The Forest Lovers: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899:
'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully cleve... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900:
'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of... | George Macaulay Trevelyan | George Macaulay Trevelyan | 'The Uses of History' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Coun... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Child's first Lesebuch' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Butler | Erewhon; or, Over the Range | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905:
'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905:
'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [emp... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[George Macaulay] Trevelyan wrote to Leonard Woolf (December 1905 [...]) "I wonder whether you will have seen E. M. F... | George Macaulay Trevelyan | E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906:
'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicise... | Edward Morgan Forster | Joris-Karl Huysmans | La Cathedrale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907:
'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Garnett | A Censored Play: The Breaking Point | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908:
'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and f... | Edward Morgan Forster | Hugh Walpole | The Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910:
'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was goin... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest B. Havell | Indian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanation of Their Motives and Ideals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910:
'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910:
'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are pas... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910:
'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining bo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Niccolo Manucci | Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910:
'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | British Dominion in India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | Idolatry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. F. I. Graham | The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. Felix Wedgwood | The Shadow of a Titan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Valentine Chiriol | Indian Unrest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911:
'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hardy | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912:
'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it d... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Moore | Ave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. L. Strachey | Landmarks in French Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. T. Sheppard | Greek Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Mme Augustine Bulteau | L'Ame des Anglais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Chevrillon | Dans L'Inde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Lascelles Abercrombie | Emblems of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912:
'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Miss Wright | poem | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter de la Mare | The Return | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Amber Reeves | The Reward of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912:
'Dear Woolf
'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Leonard Woolf | story | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912:
'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Richard Barham Middleton | 'The Ghost Ship' | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912:
'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | Following Darkness | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Ge... | a gentleman | Laetitia Pilkington | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Author... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | [n/a] | [press cuttings - subject unknown] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen | Clifford Bax | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen | Phyllis Reid | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations] | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | [n/a] | Daily Mail, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said he... | Douglas Cole | Getrude Stein | [art criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underl... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Edith Wharton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud.... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Isabel Paterson | [column in ] New York Herald Tribune Books | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown article about Ezra Pound] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ernest Hemingway | Sun Also Rises, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Violet Hunt | I Have This to Say | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered.... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Thus to Revisit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so ... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't bel... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've ... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Isabel Paterson | [review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York Herald Tribune Book Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | W.R. Benet | 'Uncle Ford' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'. | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | Time of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Twice-Told Tales | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Blithedale Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Charles Lamb | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Golden Legend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Margaret De Quincey | William Wordsworth | "She Was a Phantom of Delight" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo... | Virginia Woolf | Margaret Symonds | Days Spent on a Doge's Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | Lewis Melville | The Thackeray Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | F. G. Kitton | The Dickens Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Adam Cramb | Germany and England | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'White Paper' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a n... | Edward Morgan Forster | | notice on wartime safety measures | Print: ?poster ('notice') |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Roger Fry | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The White Peacock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Arthur Balfour | 'What Our Fleet Has Done' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | Count Ernst von Reventlow | 'A Year of Naval Warfare' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Bombardment' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Rousbrugge' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'Missionary magazine' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Milton | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Bridges, ed. | [possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers and Poets made by the POet Laureate in 1915 & dedicated by gracious permission to His Majesty the King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Emil Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917:
'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Feet of the Young Men | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benedict Spinoza | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Middle Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Baptiste Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Claudel | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | Translations from Lucretius | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918:
'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Sense of the Past | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Graves | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918:
'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'Kenneth' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'The Trial of Witches' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[quotation from Johnson's 'Life of Edmund Smith', regarding Gilbert Walmsley] His studies had been so various, that I... | Gilbert Walmsley | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | George III | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii]
'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Frances Burney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Mol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Percy Lubbock | The Craft of Fiction | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Vanbrugh | The Provok'd Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...]
'[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with r... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Billy Budd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples inclu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | The Sailor's Return | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics. | Edward Morgan Forster | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927):
'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanho... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Letter to Lytton Strachey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only ... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. B. Priestley | article on E. M. Forster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. E. Wortham | Oscar Browning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927:
'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself,
I love me,... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'I love me' (song lyric) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to fo... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. M. Forster | short stories | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | Le Desert de l'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | La Pharisienne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, at... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | Stars and Atoms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Deloney | The Gentle Craft part II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 N... | Edward Morgan Forster | Horace Walpole | Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more p... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | The Nature of the Physical World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929):
'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as the... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. N. Whitehead | Science and the Modern World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz | The Kalahari and its Native Races | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become... | Edward Morgan Forster | T. S. Eliot | 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anton Chekhov | 'Uprooted' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Vaughan | 'Quickness' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. L. Lucas | 'The Graces' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking a... | Edward Morgan Forster | Cyril Connolly | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit
'runs an epigram of Maurois w... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Maurois | Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardy... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Cowper Powys | Wolf Solent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Hugh Blair | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'. | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | 'A Farewell' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. E. Housman | Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Trois Discours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | The Conquest of Granada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | An Essay of Heroic Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Rodogune | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Preface, The Maiden Queen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Life of [Richard] Savage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Plan [for Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | remarks on Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Raleigh, ed. | Johnson on Shakespare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | The Battle of the Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments... | Edward Morgan Forster | Nicolas Boileau | L'Art Poetique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written e... | Edward Morgan Forster | Dante Alighieri | De Vulgari Eloquentia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand. |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Letters of Henry James (vol.I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they m... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Aubrey | The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Des Singularites de la Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical In... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles F. Richardson | 'Critical Introduction' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric':
'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '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 |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Indu Rakshit | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Christopher Isherwood | Mr Norris Changes Trains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi. | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Mardi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | Together | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Malory | Le Morte D'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii:
'And they answered the Ang... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Book of Zechariah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | passages from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde... | Edward Morgan Forster | Abraham Cowley | Essay no. 5 ('The Garden') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both dev... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean de la Bruyere | 'Du Coeur' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of J... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literatu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Freville, trans. and ed. | Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at M... | Edward Morgan Forster | Adolf Hitler | address on national art | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Be... | Edward Morgan Forster | V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin | (excerpted) writings on literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins a... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | History of the British Expedition to Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benjamin Farington | Science and Politics in the Ancient World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. M. Cornford | From Religion to Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Newton | Sermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple') | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addres... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad (books I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | 'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arthur Hugh Clough | Dipsychus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on Napoleon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame... | Edward Morgan Forster | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include repor... | Edward Morgan Forster | R. W. Ketton-Cremer | Horace Walpole: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery':
'"Nor shall your p... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | Sonnets of the Imagination XLII | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, beca... | Edward Morgan Forster | Gerald Heard | The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Disappointment of God.
'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disap... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Disappointment of God' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The se... | Edward Morgan Forster | Elizabeth Gaskell | Sylvia's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wis... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. A. L. Fisher | A History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with fi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | 'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul-Louis Courier | 'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Valery | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' imposi... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hodgkin | Italy and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Virgil | Aeneid (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940:
'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last nig... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine]
'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Aug... | Edward Morgan Forster | W. E. H. Lecky | History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Augustine, Some scattered notes.
'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on t... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | 'On Marriage and Concupiscence' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Michaud | article on Pelagius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of th... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Neville Figgis | The Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of God | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Jerome | Select Letters of St Jerome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall s... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Basil | Letters (vol.II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A Hi... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. A. Wright | A History of Later Greek Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and with... | Edward Morgan Forster | Socrates of Constantinople | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried ou... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. H. Carr | Michael Bakunin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust,... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Le Temps Retrouve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Darwin | The Voyage of the Beagle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. P. Wavell | Allenby: Soldier and Statesman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Bruller | Le Silence de la Mer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Giono | 'Prelude de Pan' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Honore de Balzac | Illusions perdues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Gide | Journal | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Stefan George | 'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Baudelaire | 'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering m... | Edward Morgan Forster | Van Wyck Brooks | The Ordeal of Mark Twain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student]
E. M. Forster transcribes passage op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the ke... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arnold Toynbee | A Study of History (vol I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944):
'On Hydon's top there is a cup
And in that cup there ... | Edward Morgan Forster | | A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bede | Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henri-Frederic Amiel | Fragments d'un Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wander... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Waterton | Wanderings in South America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discover... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Henley | Appendix no. 2 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Heinrich Heine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Joseph Marie Eugene Sue | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Henri Murger | Scenes de la Vie Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Auguste Comte | Cours de Philosophie Positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Moliere | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Honore de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Alfred de Musset | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Edmond de Goncourt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Walter Scott | Redgauntlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Walter Savage Landor | Imaginary Conversations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Johann Peter Eckerman | Conversations of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Friedrich Schiller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | Margaret Gissing | Friedrich Schiller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'. | George Gissing | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Paul Charles Joseph Bourget | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Jens Peter Jacobsen | Niels lyhne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Jens Peter Jacobsen | Marie Grube | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Woodlanders, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | Hedda Gabler | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Honore de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Gustave Flaubert | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Guy de Maupassant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Alphonse Daudet | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | J.P. Jacobsen | Niels Lyhne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Frederika Bremer | Hertha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Hippolyte Taine | History of English Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Études et portraits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Essais de psychologie contemporaine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Albert Henry Buck | Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | William B. Carpenter | Principles of Mental Physiology, With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Theodule-Armand Ribot | Hérédité: étude psychologique | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Spe... | George Gissing | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe... | George Gissing | Aristophanes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe... | George Gissing | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late "worthy'' Duke of Queensberry, as Thomson, in his "Seasons," justly characterises him, told me that when Gay... | Charles Douglas, Third Duke of Queensberry | John Gay | Beggar's Opera, The | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such pa... | Siegfried sassoon | Henri Barbusse | Under Fire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'they lent me Mr Gee's booke concerninge prayer; he was minister at Eccleston. And upon the 15th day, Tusday, I was re... | Roger Lowe | Edward Gee | A Treatise of Prayer and of Divine Providence as relating to it | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'. | Roger Lowe | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went into old William Hasleden's in Ashton; his wife was sicke and I read in the Practice of Pietie, and as I was r... | Roger Lowe | Lewis Bayly | The Practice of Piety | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | The Maid of Astolat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I have just put down the "Testament Politique,"" G. was writing to me, as though by telepathy, only a week later, "a... | | Frederick the Great of Prussia | Testament Politique | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction ... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | Mr Grove | [articled in 'The Spectator'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Bar... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | Henry Wooton | 'Ye meaner beauties of the night' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips. | George Otto Trevelyan | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Conyers Middleton | The life and letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Poole | Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Cha... | George Otto Trevelyan | Elizabeth Von Arnim | Christopher and Columbus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Cicero | The treatises of M.T. Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generat... | George Otto Trevelyan | Frances Trollope | The Laurringtons; or, superior people | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this am... | George Otto Trevelyan | Frances Trollope | The ward of Thorpe-Combe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn'... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry Gunning | Reminiscences of the university, town and county of Cambridem from the year 1780 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many marginal notes include: "The marginal notes and lines are from Macaulay's Deux Ponts edition. NB I did not read t... | George Otto Trevelyan | Aulus Gellius | Noctes atticae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "The marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in p... | George Otto Trevelyan | Caius Velleius Paterculus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan.... | George Otto Trevelyan | Caius Suetonius Tranquillus | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October... | George Otto Trevelyan | Plato | Dialogues | |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." | George Otto Trevelyan | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his siste... | George Otto Trevelyan | Thucydides | De bello Pelloponesiaco | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finis... | George Otto Trevelyan | Herodotus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Martin Madan | A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perseus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905;... | George Otto Trevelyan | Demosthenes | Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur Holmes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read... | George Otto Trevelyan | Demosthenes | Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Olynthiacs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to re... | George Otto Trevelyan | Demosthenes | in Midiam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Xenophon | Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton L. Brownson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Wey... | George Otto Trevelyan | Horace | Works; ed by Macleane | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS note on final flyleaf: "This book gets very poor towards the end. The omissions in the Shield of Achilles, - both i... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Walker | Clavis Homerica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] tal... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | Portraits of places | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, co... | George Otto Trevelyan | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897. | George Otto Trevelyan | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marginalia throughout book, including the thoughts of Sir George Otto Trevelyan on visiting the grave who... | George Otto Trevelyan | Mark Twain | A tramp abroad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS note at the end of "The man of destiny": "Dec 5 1926 Read aloud to C, [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] - as I once di... | George Otto Trevelyan | George Bernard Shaw | Plays: pleasant and unpleasant | Print: Book |
| | Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the... | George Otto Trevelyan | Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | Private diary of travels, personal services, and public events ... | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh... | George Otto Trevelyan | Oliver Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constan... | George Otto Trevelyan | Arnold Bennett | The old wives' tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, Georg... | George Otto Trevelyan | Arnold Bennett | These twain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Gl... | George Otto Trevelyan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Julius Stinde | The Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berlin life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was bas... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The better sort | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of th... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The reverberator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevely... | George Otto Trevelyan | Anthony Hope | The Dolly dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome.... | George Otto Trevelyan | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-se... | George Otto Trevelyan | Mary Boykin Chesnut | A diary from Dixie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Felix Bouvier | Bonaparte en Italie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Lothrop Motley | History of the United Netherlands | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | MS annotations incl. v.1 p.534: "A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is on the wrong side o... | George Otto Trevelyan | James Grant | British battles on land and sea | Print: Book |
| | MS notes throughout, mainly taken for Sir George's own research into Charles James Fox. One reads (v.2.p.376): "I am g... | George Otto Trevelyan | Charles James Fox | Memorials and correspondence of Charles James Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "S... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Lothrop Motley | The rise of the Dutch republic: a history | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read betwee... | George Otto Trevelyan | Marcus Tullius Cicero | M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "Ma... | George Otto Trevelyan | Julius Caesar | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and mar... | George Otto Trevelyan | Cornelius Tacitus | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, fro... | George Otto Trevelyan | Livy | Historiorum libri | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Sallust | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian l... | George de Coundouroff | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the time when Owen Ruffhead was writing the "Contest" in opposition to Murphy's "Test"; Gilbert Cooper it seems th... | Gilbert Cooper | Arthur Murphy | Contest | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our mother started with joy at the sight of 'great fall in Tea' printed in the last newspaper, at the head of an adve... | Margaret Carlyle | | Advertisement for Tea | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass... | Arthur Hugh Clough | Arthur Hugh Clough | Mari Magno | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard El... | Giovanni Povoleri | Giovanni Povoleri | [translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[George Goldie] earnestly requested to see my MS. I gave it to him with reluctance, being predetermined to have nothi... | George Goldie | James Hogg | 'The Queens Wake' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | 'Confession of Faith' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | William Gladstone | Gleanings Of Past Years | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T... | Mary Augusta Ward | T.H. Green | Witness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice t... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have n... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [books on 18th century Lancashire life] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical critici... | John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton | | [biblical criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [blue books of statistics] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the sa... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [papers on Factory Law] | Print: Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after I had reed some of bond of the suboth, I walked abroad: and so to supper' | Margaret Hoby | Bond | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | [unsure if reading or writing?] 'then I wrett the most part of an examenation or triall of a christian, framed by Mr R... | Margaret Hoby | Richard Rhodes | [Examination of the trial of a Christian] | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: 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 prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | [n/a] | Bible | 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] | [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 Soul | 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 | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: 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 | 'after I had supped, I reed of grenhame, and se went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and reed of Granhame tell supper time' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the song of Salomon' | Margaret Hoby | George Gifforde | Sermons upon the Songe of Salomon | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after dinner I went about the house, and read of the arball' | Margaret Hoby | William Turner | New herball | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read ... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I walked a while, and read of Babington, and then went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | Gervase Babington | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then reed of Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | Timothy Bright | A treatise of melancholie, containing the causes thereof | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston of that was deliuered' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible? | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | 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 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 medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 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 priuat praier I reed a while of the Bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I reed of the Bible, and spock of Certaine Chapters to Mrs Ormston and John douson' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 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 praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After priuat praier I did read of the Bible and then eate my breakfast' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818:
'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ... | George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales | Jonathan Swift | works (including correspondence) | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818:
'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ... | George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales | Mrs Delany | letter containing account of Royal visit | Manuscript: Letter, Copied. |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I walked, reed of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I walked and talked with Mr Rhodes, Reed of the bible, and, after, praied' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then I hard Margaret Rhodes reed of Mr Grenhm' | Margaret Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | After priuat praers I did read of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after I wrought, reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I wrought and reed tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast, then I wrough and reed of the bible tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then reed a whill of perkins, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I reed a hard readinge a whill' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then reed of the bible and wrought' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast: then I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then I reed of the bible and write in my table book, and so went to din... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a whil... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praers I Reed tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after reed a while, and so went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Hel... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after that, praied priuatly, hauinge reed a Chapter of the bible, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, dispatched diuerse busenes in the house, praied, and then read of the bi... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I did reed of the bible, praied, walked a litle abroad, dinned' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, eate my breakfast, and went to Church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me pe... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [o... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Civilta Cattolica | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, then brake my fast and walked abroad' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Tribuna | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after priuat praers I did read of the bible, brake my fast, and then went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [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 |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, R... | Mary Augusta Ward | Alfred von Harnack | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Unknown, page proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end... | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold | [private papers] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Egoist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | Herbert Spencer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [newspaper interviews with herself] | Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Julia Ward Howe | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [e... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Bancroft | History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Emile Faguet | Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Walter Raleigh | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'. | Mary Augusta Ward | Wlliam James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | George Tyrrell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | William James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | | bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie, had praied and broake my fast, I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers and my breakfast, I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I was in my Chamber, I praied priuatly, reed of the Testament, and then supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home I praied, reed of the bible, and dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I tooke order for diner and then reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed a Chapter of the testement, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed in perkins tell I went againe to the Church' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed a whill, after I went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrett Certaine thinges in my sermon book and did read of the bible, praied, and then dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers in the morninge I reed of the bible, and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'satt with Mr Hoby tell 6: then I went to priuat examenatione and praier, and to Read of the Testament' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '...tell all most :11: a cloke: then I praied, read of the bible, dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I went about the house and then I reed of the bible tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After I was readie and had praied, I did read of the testemente and bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'brake my fast: after, reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after took a lector, read of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'tell about 3 a Cloke: then I rede of the arball' | Margaret Hoby | William Turner | New herball | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home I reed of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, when I Came home, I mad an end of writing my sermon, then reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed of the bible: after, I praied and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed of the bible, praied, and lastly dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after that, I reed of perkins, hauinge som further Conference with my Cossine' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did break my fast, read of the bible, walked to my workmen' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did eate, then dressed my patients, reed of the bible, and then saluted some strangers' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'took order for dimer, reed of the bible, walked abroad' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 priuat praier I did read of the bible, then wret in my sermon book' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did eate, read, and then goe to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from... | Mary Augusta Ward | | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'took a lector, reed of the testament, praied with Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Vic... | Hastings Anderson | Mary Augusta Ward | Fields of Victory | 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 | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'after, I reed of the bible, went about the house, praied, and after dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did eate, tooke a lector, reed of the bible and testement, and then dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and then I reed of the Testemente and so to supper, then to publeck praers, and so to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and then I walked awhill, and after reed of Mr Broughtons booke' | Margaret Hoby | Hugh Broughton | Master Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answered | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I had praied, I took a litle phesick and then I reed of Mr Browghtons book' | Margaret Hoby | Hugh Broughton | Master Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answered | 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 | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'I got vp and was lett blood: then I made me readie and went to priuat praier and reeadinge of the bible, as I was wonte' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 priuat praers, I reed of the bible and walked about before dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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, I reed of the bible tell all most Church time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'I went about tell supper time and reed of the Testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After priuat praers I went about the house when I had reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'then I Came home and praied priuatly and reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I Came home, I read of the bible, wrought, and after dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'After I was readie, I praied, went about the house, took a lecture, reed of the bible, praied, and went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'then I reed of the bible, after praied and so went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 priuat praier I did read of the bible and then went about the house' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'after, I withdrew my selfe and reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846:
'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[... | John Gibson Lockhart | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The New Timon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 30 June 1847:
'I have read your article in the Quarterly and think it q... | Lord George Bentinck | John Wilson Croker | article on Parliament and Irish Catholics | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847:
'I have got the Quarterly and am highly delighted with ... | Lord George Bentinck | John Wilson Croker | 'Peel Policy' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847:
'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention ... | Lord George Bentinck | | Manchester Monthly Trade Circular | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 28 December 1847:
I have only got Hansard to-day; I have marked the par... | Lord George Bentinck | | Hansard (parliamentary reports) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Grote | History of Greece | 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 | '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 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 diner I talked of the sarmon, and reed of the bible with some Gentlewemen that were with me' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I had ben a whill about the house, I reed of the testement and then praied and examened my selfe' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then, towardes night, I wrett to my Cosine bouser, and reed of the Testement, and then went to priuat examenation... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and then I went againe to the church, and, after, I reed of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed of the bible, and then went to priuatt praier and, after publeck, so to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after returned to priuat praier and readinge of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I went about the house, reed of the testement, wrett some medetation that I had the day before' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed of the bible, and after returned to priuat medetation and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I reed and went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [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 sung a psalme with some of the saruants and, lastly, reed a chapter, praied, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'then I went about the house, and, after I had reed of the bible and praied' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and after, when I had praied and reed of the bible, I dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I reed and so went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I reed of the bible, talked [with] some of my freindes, praied, and then went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed of Mr Ardington's booke, and then did eate my breakfast' | Margaret Hoby | Ardington | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 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 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 | 'then I was busie in the kitchine allmost all the after none, and then I reed of the bible, and so went to priuat exam... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 I took accountes, did reead of the bible, praied, and walked, and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 reed of the bible, and then I wrought tell allmost diner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After priuat praier I brake my fast and wroug, reed of the bible, and then praied and dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I praied, reed of the bible, and went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After priuat praier I went about and reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and after I had dined I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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, I wrette to Mr Rhodes, and reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After praier I reed ouer certaine papers of instruction [which] I had receiued from Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Rhodes? | [papers of instruction] | Unknown |
| 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 priuatt prairs I went to my worke, after I had reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 priuatt praiers I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'After my accustomed prairs I did eate and read' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'before diner I praied and read of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | '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, 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 | 'and after went to readinge and medetation' | 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, 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 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 priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'and, sonne after, went to priuatt prairs and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'dined, reed of the bible, walked abroad' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat prairs I reed of Mr perkins, and after went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'after, I went to my Clositt, and there reed and praied' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then read and praied priuatly' | Margaret Hoby | [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 | 'and att night, I had read a letter that Came from Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Rhodes | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I perused Iohn wass his accussinge Letter, I went to priuatt praier' | Margaret Hoby | John Wass[e] | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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 stringth | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'in the after none, when she was Gon, I reed a Little of Mr Rogers book to Anne france' | Margaret Hoby | Thomas Rogers | A pretious book of heavenly meditations, called a private talk of the soule with God | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for violent theft:
George Verry: 'the only thing that induced me to appear as a witness wa... | George Verry | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the evening of the days when it was necessary for him to stay in the City, to "lock up" [the family banking-house]... | George Grote | | classical texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st... | George Grote | | historical texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st... | George Grote | | 'metaphysics' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman, 26 June 1816:
'From England, in 1816, it is delightful to retire, even to Italy i... | George Grote | Sismondi | history of Italy (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | Lucretius | De rerum natura | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | Seneca | Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The writings of this remarkable man [Jeremy Bentham] were now beginning to tell upon the thinking portion of young pu... | George Grote | Jeremy Bentham | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1818):
'Tuesday, Sept, 22nd, 1818.
'Rose at 7.... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | Economie politique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] read... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | Economie politique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading S... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'September 30th. At Badgemore ... | George Grote | Lord Shaftesbury | 'letter on Enthusiasm' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'September 30th. At Badgemore ... | George Grote | Lord Shaftesbury | 'letter on Enthusiasm' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Thursday, October 8th.
'Rose so... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 8. Read once again the "... | George Grote | | 'Dissertation on Virtue' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 8. Read once again the "... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, volume 2 chapter 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Thursday, October 15th, 1818.
'... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Turgot | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Tuesday, October 20th.
'Rose at... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Tuesday, October 20th.
'Rose at... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Having passed a sleepless night ... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Having passed a sleepless night ... | George Grote | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] C... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'Political Economy' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Saturday -- Rose at 1/... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | Melon | 'Essai sur le commerce' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass... | George Grote | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 'theological writings' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Read part of the first book of Aristotl... | George Grote | Aristotle | Politics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (January 1819):
'Rose at 9 [...] Mr. Bury brought me ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'on the depreciation of our paper currency' | |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'on the depreciation of our paper currency' | |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'reply to Mr Bosanquet' | |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | Xenophon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | Aristotle | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on ... | George Grote | Galton | Chart on the Late Depreciation of Bank Notes | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on ... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | De l'Homme et de ses Rapports | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'[after 11pm] Read Hemsterhuis for an hour --... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | (possibly) De l'Homme et de ses Rapports | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read... | George Grote | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read... | George Grote | Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read... | George Grote | Imanuel Kant | 'Anthropology' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hems... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | Sur la divinite | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hems... | George Grote | | article on 'Mill's British India' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819:
'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819:
'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 12 March 1819:
'Read some of Franklin's Life ... | George Grote | | 'Franklin's Life' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819:
'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a... | George Grote | David Hume | Essay on the Academical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819:
'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Monday 22 March 1819:
'Rose at 6 [...] Read some of ... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Wednesday 24 March 1819:
'Rose soon after 6. Read Ka... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819:
'Between 4 and 5 I read some... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | Prolegomena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Patterson: 'Q. What were you doing there? A. I was reading the newspaper' | George Patterson | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819:
'Rose at 6. Read and meditated... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819:
'Rose at 6. Read and meditated... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for wounding:
George Rogers: 'it was quite by accident I saw this affair in the newspaper... | George Rogers | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 27 March 1819:
'George Norman appeared [...... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Bell's weekly Messenger, April 13 1834. "The late Rudo... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Bell's Weekly Messenger (obituaries) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being a... | George Grote | Pausanias | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Sweet: 'On the 15th Dec. I saw an advertisement in the Times Newspaper ... | George Sweet | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being a... | George Grote | Goguet | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. '"Weep not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem" St Luke 23 Chap... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Gospel of St Luke, 23: 20-30 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ... | George Grote | Goguet | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ... | George Grote | Voltaire | Dictionnaire [?philosophique] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called no... | C.M.G. [anon] | George Crabbe | The Mother's Funeral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;... | George Grote | Goguet | Dissertation on Sanchoniathon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;... | George Grote | Goguet | Dissertation on the Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822:
'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822:
'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc... | George Grote | Voltaire | Dictionnaire [?philosophique] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed two pages starting '"Aug 3rd 1664. During the Pl... | C.M.G. [anon] | | The Life of Thomas Sydenham M.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 7 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Read Wolf. My opinion of him not lessened; from some pass... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a letter from 'Mr Evelyn to Mr Pepys, Wotton Aug... | C.M.G. [anon] | William Bray | Life of John Evelyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for treason:
George Davis: 'Q. How came you to alter your mind? A. Through reading the new... | George Davis | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'. | C.M.G. [anon] | Anna Brownell Jameson | Diary of an Ennuyee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon... | George Grote | 'Diod.' Siculus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon... | George Grote | 'Diod.' Siculus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g... | George Grote | 'Diod.' Siculus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g... | George Grote | Voltaire | 'Miracles' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (m... | C.M.G. [anon] | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia: Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. C.M.G. transcribes, under title 'The Ettrick Shepherd, Queen... | C.M.G. [anon] | James Hogg | Queen Hynde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By t... | C.M.G. [anon] | Rev. J.E. Hankinson | St Paul at Philippi | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he ... | C.M.G. [anon] | Hannah More | Essay on Saint Paul | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Approved remedies for Everyday Maladies. For a Fit of Passi... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Salisbury Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Notes are made on relationships in the Bible, e.g. two colum... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[By 1837] American politics had for many years occupied Grote's attention, and engaged his
sympathy. He was a great... | George Grote | | The Federalist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed: '"I compare marriage, even where there is no un... | C.M.G. [anon] | Richardson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, includi... | C.M.G. [anon] | Bishop Middleton | Maxims | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Copied from the John Bull Newspaper, Novr 19 1837. Speech o... | C.M.G. [anon] | | John Bull Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40):
'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of whi... | George Grote | Comte | Traite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40):
'The other day at the Athenaeum I took up one of the volumes of... | George Grote | Victor Cousin | Documens pour servir a l'Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | Kritik der reinen Vernunft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Plato | Timaeus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Plato | Parmenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840:
'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De l... | George Grote | B. de St Hilaire | De la logique d'Aristote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840:
'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De l... | George Grote | Aristotle | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1841 Grote was called upon to add another duty to the already full catalogue, for his
friend Dr. Waddingto... | George Grote | George Waddington | The History of the Reformation | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the evening of our arrival at Verona, George said to me, "H, have you got an Italian
grammar with you?" -- "Yes.... | George Grote | | Italian grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Within a day or two of our arrival in Rome (which was on the 7th December, 1841) Grote
engaged a master, in order t... | George Grote | | 'English comedies' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 April 1846:
'I cannot resist writing to express to you the satisfaction, as well as ... | G. C. Lewis | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 November 1847:
'I received yesterday the volume on "Swiss Politics" which you were s... | G. C. Lewis | George Grote | Letters from Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 22 January 1849:
'I have recently read Lord Hervey's Memoirs, on the recommendation of... | George Grote | Lord Hervey | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 30 September 1852:
'Neither the work of Beaufort sur l'Histoire Romaine -- nor the wor... | George Grote | Abbe St Pierre | Annees Politiques | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The farm [a family property] in Lincolnshire consumed a vast deal of our time all through [...]
1853 [...] Grote wo... | George Grote | Stephens | 'Book of the Farm' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to Harriet Grote (wife), 14 October 1853:
'I immediately sent for the "Edinburgh Review," and have rea... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the course of the summer of this year [1856] an article appeared in the pages of the
"Quarterly Review," upon Mr... | George Grote | William Smith | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857):
'I send you Thomas's book on the provincial administration of La B... | George Grote | | Life of Daunou | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857):
'I have looked at W. Humboldt's book: it is written in a very exce... | George Grote | W. Humboldt | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857:
'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries... | George Grote | G. C. Lewis | articles on ancient history | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857:
'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries... | George Grote | | Notes and Queries | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 21 October 1858
'The day before yesterday I got Donaldson's book, the completion of Mu... | George Grote | Donaldson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in December [1858] we removed, with our household, to "The Priory" at Reigate, belonging to Earl Somers [...] w... | George Grote | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While we were [visiting] at Harpton Court, passing one forenoon in Mr. Grote [husband]'s dressing-room, I asked him (... | George Grote | Degerando | Histoire des systemes de philosophie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862):
'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazin... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | articles 'upon the Principles of Utility' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 9 February 1862:
'I ought before this to have written to thank you for your book of An... | George Grote | G. C. Lewis | 'book of Ancient Astronomy' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862:
'I send you herewith a letter and pamphlet which was forwarded to me ... | George Grote | Irving | pamphlet on mythology and the human mind | |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862:
'I suppose you have read Colenso's book. It is certainly singular to ... | George Grote | Colenso | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 29 December 1862:
'Your Egyptological pamphlet is a very ingenious jeu d'esprit, and t... | George Grote | G. C. Lewis | 'Egyptological pamphlet' | |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe... | George Grote | Bain | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe... | George Grote | John Fiske | article on 'the Science of History' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe... | George Grote | | article on John Wilkes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Harriet Grote's diary (1868):
'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do... | George Grote | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Harriet Grote's diary (1868):
'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do... | George Grote | anon ('ancient writers') | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he... | George Grote | Sir William Gomm | Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5) | |
| 1850-1899 | 'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the r... | George Grote | | Le Siecle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the r... | George Grote | | Tribune | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, whic... | George Grote | | anti-Empire articles | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We proceeded to Chatsworth on the 13th of August [1870] -- that is to say, to the "Edensor Inn," hard by [...] Lady E... | George Grote | | 'treatises of medieval authors' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796):
'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now rea... | Lady Georgina Cavendish | | 'the black penitent' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807:
'George's reading goes on p... | George Howard | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earl... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anne Isabella Milbanke | 'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith's works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | [two poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Erasmus Darwin | article 'on Diseased Volition' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel... | Margaret Carlyle | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel... | Margaret Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | State of German Literature | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822:
'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ... | Granville Leveson Gower | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824:
'Here is again the... | Granville Leveson Gower | | French newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'. | Henry Marriage Wallis | Samuel Dill | Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on English ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Hardy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 23 December 1825:
'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very
... | Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto | Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Margery Rawlings | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Bernard Shaw | Doctor's Dilemma, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on historical setting of Browning's 'Sordello'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Margery Rawlings | Robert Browning | Evelyn Hope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [works by and about Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Reginald Robson | | [works by and about Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Professor at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Holmes's 'the Professor at the Breakfast Table'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's scientific writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Alfred Russel Wallace | [scientific writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Makepeace Thackeray | Roundabout Papers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 September 1834:
'Our host at the inn at Avignon, a poe... | Granville Leveson Gower | ?Pierson | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Reginald Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Newbolt | Vitai Lampada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Rupert Brooke] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 7 December 1839:
'Georgy [daughter] read me a sermon of ... | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | | sermon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843:
'We read about Ireland with great... | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | Mr Sheil | speech | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Dostoevsky] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Reginald Robson | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Reginald Robson | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Reginald Robson | Charles Stansfield | [essay on Twain] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Reginald Robson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | Sigurd the Volsung | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Gilbert Murray] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Gilbert Murray | Rise of the Greek Epic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Gissing | Odd Women, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 27 June 1812:
'I cannot refrain [...] from mentioning to you a conversation which Lord... | George Prince of Wales | Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From recollections of John Murray junior:
'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Wells's 'Romances'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Reginald Robson | Herbert George Wells | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Herbert George Wells | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814:
'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Eagle | Journal of Penrose, the Seaman | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | The Hon. George Lamb | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817:
'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I recei... | Augusta Leigh | Walter Scott | Review of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818):
'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand tha... | Augusta Leigh | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with att... | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the whole, our study and love of German Literature seems to be rapidly progressive: in my time, that is, within th... | British Population (general) | | [German literature] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Conrad] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Reginald Robson | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Louis Stevenson | Master of Ballantrae, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Reginald Robson | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on an altar stone found near Carthage] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper introducing Balzac] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Honore de Balzac | Wild Ass's Skin, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [essay on Keats' life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on the Comic] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Shane Leslie | End of a Chapter, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand trave... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giovanni Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Hardy's life and work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | 'Three Travellers, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | [literary criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831:
'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and thoug... | Gally Knight | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Ben Jonson | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842:
'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with ... | George Borrow | Miss Rigby | Letters from the Baltic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842:
'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with ... | George Borrow | | Review of Miss Rigby, Letters from the Baltic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842:
'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in... | George Borrow | | Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842:
'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in... | George Borrow | | Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray, 25 February 1843:
'I have seen the article in the Edinburgh about the Bible [in Spain... | George Borrow | | Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Henry Marriage Wallis | E.V. Lucas | Joints in the Armour | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | 'Bad Morality & Bad art' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Browning's The Ring & the Book] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Reginald Robson | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Reginald Robson | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Love Peacock] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Love Peacock | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a ... | Francis Warrington Dawson | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Sin | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Reginald Robson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Maurice Hewlett | Queen's Quair Or The Six Years' Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on History of Berkshire] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. Th... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Piltdown Woman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Reginald Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Pepys] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Reginald Robson | | Sir Patrick Spens | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | Helen of Kirconnel | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [paper on Dr Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Reginald Robson | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Laurence Housman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Housman's 'New Child's Guide to Knowledge'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Laurence Housman | Englishwoman's Love-letters, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Reginald Robson | Laurence Housman | New Child's Guide to Knowledge | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax:
"Your book, I thin... | George Catlin | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the plane I saw in the paper of the fellow ahead of me, "Le Marechal Pilzudski est mort hier".' | George Catlin | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Reginald Robson | Anatole France | Penguin Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | George Burrow | John Masefield | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | George Burrow | John Masefield | 'Everlasting Mercy, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Gallipoli | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Reginald Robson | Arthur Quiller-Couch | 'Once aboard the lugger' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a poem] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] Th... | George Robert Fitzgerald | Mary Robinson | 'pastoral [poem]' | Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [paper on George Sand] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Sabine Baring-Gould | John Herring | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Sabine Baring-Gould | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Reginald Robson | Anthony Trollope | Warden, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | George Burrow | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [paper on Mark Rutherford] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Isles of Greece, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Reginald Robson | William de Morgan | Alice for Short | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | George Burrow | Walt Whitman | 'Memories of President Lincoln' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | Reginald Robson | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | George Burrow | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Reginald Robson | Hugh Walpole | Cathedral, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755:
'I met with some lines the other day in a transla... | Margaret Collier | Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'I still feel anxiety, painful anxiety, for so... | Margaret Collier | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756:
'My good old folks --you can't think how I love... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re... | George Burrow | Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold | "The Amber Witch" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | George Burrow | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on geology] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | George Burrow | Charles Lamb | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:]
'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a... | Sir George Lyttleton | Elizabeth Carter | 'To a Lady Fond of Life' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Reginald Robson | J. C. Squires | [poem possibly entitled 'Birds'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | George Burrow | Burrow | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | George Burrow | | [reading about the Garden of Eden] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | George Burrow | Leo Tolstoy | The Cossacks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Reginald Robson | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | George Burrow | Thomas Hardy | Dynasts, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | George Burrow | William Makepeace Thackeray | Essay on Jonathan Swift | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He told me later that the "New York Post" announced the conclusion of the war in Europe under the headline: "Now We M... | George Catlin | | New York Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [George Henry Lewes to Elizabeth Gaskell:]
'When Jane Eyre first appeared, the publishers courteously sent me a cop... | George Henry Lewes | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:]
'There are moments when I... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'most striking & thrilling... twice to my mother & sisters' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Astolphe de Custine | ?Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'very good, rather political in character' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermon on Spiritual Freedom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'very good, with his peculiar views' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermon on the Imitableness of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'good, with the Unitarian views' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermons on Love to Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a vague subject, but treated in the refined & elevated spirit peculiar to him' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | George Stillman Hillard | The Relation of the Poet to His Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'written in a bad American style, turgid, & obscurely fractious, but interesting from its matter' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Farnham | Travels in the Great Western Prairies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been extremely interested by it, and think it a most remarkable book, beyond measure severe, every line is wri... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Astolphe de Custine | La Russia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the founder of the Ministry at large, excellent. I must have talk with Ly Byron about this subject, & the similar ins... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermon on Dr Tuckerman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'interesting, but I should say indicative of rather a deficient moral standard & Providential recognition' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | | [Articles on the French Revolution and Robespierre, journal unknown] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'fine imagery, but is too speculative' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Henry Melvill | Sermon on the Ascension | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'short as all his are, & excellent as almost all are' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Arnold | Sermon on the text 'except ye eat the flesh of the son of man' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'very interesting & able. I have read the entire contents of his published works, and every page has impressed upon me... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Lecture on the Present Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'pithy & good. He is sure never to offend, usually to instruct & amend' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Arnold | Sermon on the Three Comings of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read loud… I like better & better, it is so clever & so practical' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Arnold | Sermon on Ceasar's Household | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'full of good & useful matter' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | James Kay-Shuttleworth | Proof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training School | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'entertained me much, though they would probably have not so much interest out of this family, to which so many of the... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | George Selwyn | Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'excellent, some antidote is salutary amidst such frivolities' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Leighton | Sermon on Divine Grace and Obedience | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | George Eliot | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | George Eliot | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call on a friend. As I entered the ... | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Backfile of his own articles published in the "Daily Herald." | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Elizabethan Drama other than Shakespear was then taken. Geo Burrow read a very short intro... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [A very short introduction to Elizabethan drama other than Shakespeare] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | George Burrow | anon | Arden of Faversham | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under
Thos. C Elliot... | Reginald H. Robson | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | George Burrow | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | Reginald H. Robson | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings
| Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | War Time Tree Fellings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved<... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | The Abolition of the House of Commons | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Reginald H. Robson | Victor Hugo | Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | George Burrow | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | George Burrow | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and ... | Siegfried Sassoon | Robert Graves | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | George Burrow | | [Un-named modern American works in verse] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Reginald H. Robson | Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [essay on a family holiday] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | George Burrow | George Burrow | The Jamboree and Thoughts thereon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Reginald H. Robson | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | George Burrow | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [an account of the life of John Masefield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Sard Harker | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Edgar Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mignon Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [an introduction to the topic of the Sitwells] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | George Burrow | | Who's Who | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | Southern Baroque Art | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | George Burrow | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair 'Meeting held at School H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [an account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Reginald H. Robson | Hugh de Selincourt | The Cricket Match | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | George Burrow | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Edgar Castle | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [a paper on the life of Goethe] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | George Burrow | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gefunden | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [on the later work of Walter Scott] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Mignon Castle | Alfred Rawlings | [a thoughtful essay] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Reginald H. Robson | Howard Smith | [A paper on English justice] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | George Burrow | Reginald H. Robson | [The life and writings of John Galsworthy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | George Burrow | Matthew Arnold | The Scholar Gipsy | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | George Burrow | Matthew Arnold | Thyrsis | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Edgar Castle | H. V. Morton | In Search of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Reginald H. Robson | Dorothy Brain | Hors d’Oeuvres | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [On the artistic and socialist aspects of William Morris’s work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Reginald H. Robson | J. W. Mackail | The Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Reginald H. Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Min... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | The Excursion – Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways of the Chiltern Hills | Manuscript: Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text. |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Reginald H. Robson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [a paper on witchcraft] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Edgar Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Edgar Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Mignon Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Reginald H. Robson | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Reginald H. Robson | Saki [pseud.] | Beasts and Super-Beasts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Reginald H. Robson | Saki [pseud.] | Beasts and Super-Beasts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Margaret L. LLoyd | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Roger Moore | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Roger Moore | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
... | Roger Moore | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Here I sit reading the Saturday Review, New Statesman etc and feeling rather humpy.' | Siegfried Sassoon | | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.' | Siegfried Sassoon | Thomas Hardy | The Return of the Native | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me a... | Siegfried Sassoon | Robert Curzon | Visits to Monasteries in the Lavant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about t... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by pos... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of period... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, ... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 1914] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | [Army Communique] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kip... | Douglas Herbert Bell | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty... | Douglas Herbert Bell | George William Russell | "Shadows and Lights" | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field a... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Much as he had liked [his previous employers], George Michael [Clarkson] liked the builder-brothers just as well. The... | George Michael Clarkson | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consistin... | Douglas Lyall Grant | | [POW camp publication] | Print: Serial / periodical |