| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 | William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838:
'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon ... | Francis Wrangham | Juvenal | Satire X | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sep... | Francis Wrangham | Francis Wrangham | Brutoniad | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora THompson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora THompson | Walter Scott | Waverley Novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond Ma... | Wilfrid Meynell | George Meredith | Modern Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt]... | Francis Thompson | | The Globe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son .... | Florence Murray | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than ... | Flora Thompson | | Royal Reader | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than ... | Flora Thompson | | [history reader] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than ... | Flora Thompson | Giovanni Battista Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, &c. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had be... | Ford Madox Ford | Arnold Bennett | New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the "Phaedo", the final pages of which never fail... | Lord Alfred Milner | Plato | Phaedo | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent... | Frances Anne Kemble | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemb... | Fanny Kemble | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex.... | Francis Wemyss | Mostyn John Armstrong | Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | German fable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre reviews | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre review in The Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'. | Fanny Kemble | Grahame | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselve... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after ... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Alfieri | Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Washington Irving | A Tour on the Prairies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Dr Combe | Principles of Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Jeremy Taylor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'. | Fanny Kemble | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my Germa... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | German text/s | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free... | Fanny Kemble | Anon | [Sicilian song] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentleme... | Caroline Frances Anne Mew | Anita Loos | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Friedrich von Schiller | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Johann Gottfried von Herder | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Johan Wolfgang Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Karl Theodor Korner | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the 4th ed. [of [italics]A Tour through Italy[end italics], [italics]A Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII[e... | Felicia Hemans | John Chetwode Eustace | A Classical Tour of Italy, An. MDCCCII (vol.1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading of Herder's ballad collection "Volkslieder". | Felicia Hemans | Johann Gottfried von Herder | Volkslieder | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, "The American Forest-Girl": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedg... | Felicia Hemans | Catherine Maria Sedgwick | Hope Leslie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'. | Felicia Hemans | unknown | Memoir of the Queen of Prussia | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading some of [...] [Mary Tighe's] early poems in manuscript, F[elicia]H[emans] wrote a sonnet, "On Records o... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Tighe | early poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to John Murray, 26 February 1817, having just sent to him the MS of "Modern Greece": 'Had I been aware ... | Felicia Hemans | | advertisements for books on the arts | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some t... | Felicia Hemans | Dr Alexander Brunton | Memoir of Mary Brunton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some t... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Brunton | Emmeline: With Some Other Pieces | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present o... | Felicia Hemans | Caroline Bowles | Solitary Hours | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present o... | Felicia Hemans | Caroline Bowles | poetical/prose "pieces" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of Germa... | Felicia Hemans | Johann Heinrich Voss | poem ("nuptial benediction") | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of Germa... | Felicia Hemans | Germaine de Stael | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and co... | Felicia Hemans | | Reports on Mary Russell Mitford's play, Rienzi | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and co... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi (excerpts) | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's "Life of Byron", 'wh... | Felicia Hemans | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some "Quarterly Reviews" have lately been sent to me, one of wh... | Felicia Hemans | John Gibson Lockhart | Review of Thomas Moore's Life of Byron | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortl... | F. Cholmley | Joanna Baillie | The Family Legend (act 4) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and En... | Professor W. Smythe | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | [Brothers] Grimm | [Fairy Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | Joan O'Neill | The Daisy Chain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Carrots | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th... | Flora Thompson | [n/a] | Bow Bells | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th... | Flora Thompson | [n/a] | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th... | Flora Thompson | [unknown] | His Ice Queen | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laura's greatest find was a battered old copy of Belzoni's "Travels" propping open somebody's pantry window. When she... | Flora Thompson | Giovanni Battista Belzoni | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 |
'His lesson consisted of Bible reading, turn and turn round the class, of reciting from memory the names of the king... | Flora Thompson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laura was lucky enough to be given a bound volume of "Good Words" - or was it "Home Words"? - in which the Queen's ow... | Flora Thompson | Queen Victoria | Leaves from Her Majesty's Life in the Highlands | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of the first books that Laura read with absorbed interest. She adored the Master of... | Flora Thompson | Sir Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''A grand old book, "The Pilgrim's Progress"! But I've something here you'll like better. "Cranford". Ever heard of it... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wid... | Flora Thompson | Maria Charlesworth | Ministering Children | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wid... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Wetherell | Queechy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide, Wi... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Wetherell | The Wide, Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She was shocked by some of the hero's adventures but more often thrilled. Laura learned quite a lot by reading "Don J... | Flora Thompson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. | Frances Hamilton | R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester) | The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition.
'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two very long quotations:
1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr... | Frances Hamilton | M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu | Spirit of Laws | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it. | Frances Hamilton | John Mead | [Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | A Letter to Earl Stanhope | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes.
'Vol 2 Agamemnon.
N.B. A ... | Frances Hamilton | Aeschylus | The Tragedies of Aeschylus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 24 Oct 1788:
'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 13 Dec 1788
Another long quotation from Smith's translation:
'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby.
'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for... | Frances Hamilton | Rev J Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France:
'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| | Marginalia
Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction.
Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday"
Herbert, The Collar ... | Francis Robert Longworth-Dames | Herbert J C Grierson | Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In a notebook entry for 12 July 1896, Mattison expresses regret over the death of oscialist activist Caroline Martyn, ... | Alf Mattison | Keir Hardie | Labour Leader | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'My book reviews find considerable favour. The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads... | Frederic Chapman | Arnold Bennett | reviews | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of F.M., while greatly affected by death of fellow convict, John Williams: 'My feelings I cannot describe. ... | | [n/a] | Bible | 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 | 'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing n... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's p... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade ... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I... | Frank Smythe | Richard Aldington | Death of a Hero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".' | Frank Smythe | James Boswell | A Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it fall... | Frank Smythe | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers and weekly magazines | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Among the mail was "The Times" Special Coronation Supplement. The men were vastly intrigued with the pictures.
"Tha... | Frank Smythe | | The Times Special Coronation Supplement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News ... | Florence Elizabeth Crompton | [n/a] | Daily News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940:
'I read your article on th... | Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes | Leonard Woolf | article on 'the politician and the intellectual' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy... | Alfred Edward Housman | [unknown] | [book on astronomy] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy... | Alfred Edward Housman | John Lempriere | Bibliotheca Classica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Somewhat later [than his discovery of Lempriere at 8] another chance discovery which may well have been formative was... | Alfred Edward Housman | J.E Bode | Ballads from Herodotus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found his " Journey" the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be. At one of... | William Murray, First Earl Mansfield | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Vol 7
On the Griphi and Impromptus
(quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small... | Frances Hamilton | Abbot Barthelemu | Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book I have a high opinion of' | Frances Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan.
N.B. a rebellious book.' | Frances Hamilton | D O'Bryan | The Government of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had ... | Frederick Locker-Lampson | Thomas Hood | epigram | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | Rev. F. D. Maurice | Rev. F. D. Maurice | paper on meanings of words 'nature,' 'natural,' 'supernatural.' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [paper on Annie Wood Besant's 'An Autobiography'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Frederick J. Edminson | Annie Wood Besant | Autobiography, An | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Matthew Arnold as essayist] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Frederick Edminson | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".' | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [paper on The Tempest] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".' | Frederick J. Edminson | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Kingsley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Frederick J. Edminson | Robert Browning | 'Phedippides' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Frederick Edminson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Burns's personality] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Frederick J. Edminson | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another h... | Frederick Edminson | John Morley | Oliver Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another h... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Morley's life of Oliver Cromwell] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [Paper on Thomas Moore and Thomas Hood] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick Edminson | Thomas Moore | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick Edminson | Thomas Hood | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the pro... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [essay on Matthew Arnold] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the pro... | Frederick J. Edminson | Matthew Arnold | Literature and Dogma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon ... | Frederick J. Edminson | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree | Poverty, A Study of Town Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 August 1819:
'I admire F. Lamb perhaps more t... | F. Lamb | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | Frederick Edminson | | [Sagas] | 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... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on English ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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... | Frederick Edminson | Henrik Ibsen | Doll's House, The | 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... | Frederick Edminson | Henrik Ibsen | Doll's House, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Dante's Purgatorio] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Frederick Edminson | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [Essay on Goldwin Smith as historian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Frederick J. Edminson | Goldwin Smith | [historical works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832):
'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me... | Fanny Kemble | Milman | Review of Fanny Kemble, Francis the First | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |