| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'. | Elizabeth Gaskell | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 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... | 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 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 |
| 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 | [having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu... | Florence Elizabeth Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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 | '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 | '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... | 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 ... | Florence Elizabeth Gaskell | Wilhelm Meinhold | Amber Witch, 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 | '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 |
| 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 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 |