√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded... | Mary Augusta Ward | J. Henry Shorthouse | John Inglesant | |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it ... | Mary Ward | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish books to review in 'The Times', the... | Mary Ward | | [French and Spanish books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".' | Mary Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Joseph Joubert | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Joseph Joubert | Correspondance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Horace | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Étienne Pivert de Senancour | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thu... | Mary Ward | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | 'Confession of Faith' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | William Gladstone | Gleanings Of Past Years | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T... | Mary Augusta Ward | T.H. Green | Witness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice t... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have n... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [books on 18th century Lancashire life] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [blue books of statistics] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the sa... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [papers on Factory Law] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Hel... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me pe... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [o... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Civilta Cattolica | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Tribuna | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, R... | Mary Augusta Ward | Alfred von Harnack | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Unknown, page proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end... | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold | [private papers] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Egoist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | Herbert Spencer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [newspaper interviews with herself] | Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Julia Ward Howe | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [e... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Bancroft | History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Emile Faguet | Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Walter Raleigh | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'. | Mary Augusta Ward | Wlliam James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | George Tyrrell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | William James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | | bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from... | Mary Augusta Ward | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Mary Hayward | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on Henri Bergson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on life of Lewis Carroll] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Mary Hayward | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Mary Hayward | Herbert George Wells | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Mary Hayward | Herbert George Wells | [extracts from novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on the sub-conscious] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Mary Hayward | Richard Jefferies | Story of my Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Mary Hayward | Leslie Stephen | [account of climbing the Zinal Rothorn] | Print: Book |