Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Walter Raleigh

 

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1900-1945Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walte...Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying...Sir Walter Raleigh Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- th...Walter Raleigh Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well ...Sir Walter Raleigh Horace WalpoleCastle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio PellicoPrisonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'Sir Walter Raleigh n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I am reading Martineau ["Types of Ethical Theory"] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.'Sir Walter Raleigh James MartineauTypes of Ethical TheoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian ass...Sir Walter Raleigh William Wordsworth[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on th...Sir Walter Raleigh Arthur HelpsRealmahPrint: Book
1850-1899'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re...Sir Walter Raleigh Walt Whitman[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed...Sir Walter Raleigh Robert Louis StevensonThe Black ArrowPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Life of Scott]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...Sir Walter Raleigh Samuel RogersPleasures of MemoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'Sir Walter Raleigh PlatoBanquetPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio PellicoPrisonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...Sir Walter Raleigh George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][dramatists' works]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Roman History]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][unknown]Print: Book

 

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