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John Aikin
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John Aikin : A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester
'I took [books] to the library and brought Aikin's "Description of the Country between 30 and 40 miles around Manchester", nevertheless he has Sheffield which is 42 miles of. There are some excellent maps & beautiful prints. It says that the pastoral in the spectator of Colin and Phoebe was written by a Mr Byrom ... Mr E says it is a very valuable book.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
John Aikin : A Description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester
'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened
'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
John Aikin : A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester
'We got the "Monthly Magazine" from Miss Haynes who takes it in. Mr E. says it is the best published. I drew a copy of Stanley Hall near Bolton le Moor out of Aikin.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention and vigilance, but the exercise in narration is a subsequent and separate one, it is in the lucidity, completeness and honesty of statement."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigrations of Indur, the Discontented Squirrel, the Travelled Aunt, the Cat and her Children, and Little Fido.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error respecting manufacture and industry ads rivalsto Art and Genius, are concentrated in "Evenings at Home", and Harry and Lucy S...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
[Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent "Evenings at Home" amongst books of mere entertainment. Upon a close examination, it appears to be the best book for young people from seven to ten years old, that has yet appeared. We shall not pretend to enter into a minute examination of it; because, from what we have already said, parents can infer sentiments, and we wish to avoid tedious, unnecessary detail.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathetic passages, and natural dialogues in "Evenings at Home" in a manner which would have made even Sterne's critic forget his stop-watch.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'Several children, who were reading "Evenings at Home", observed that in the story of Juliet and the fairy order...' [ the children comment on the story].
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [ a group of children known to Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'S----was reading in "Evenings at Home" the story of "A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed" ...[when he commented on the word choice in a certain sentence].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'There is a slight attempt at the kind of composition we mean, in a little trial in "Evenings at Home"; and we have seen children read it with great avidity.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [children known to Maria Edgeworth] Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the 'College of Dublin' and 'he has just finished a poem called the "Transmigrations of Indur" - the plan taken from your tale in Evenings at Home.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: C.S. Edgeworth Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
'It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the "Evenings at Home", or "Juvenile Budget", all this appears to be effected in it's utmost extent...' [more praise follows].
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at home
'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boy's books was one which taught me [to use my eyes]...It's name was Evenings at Home, and in it was a story called "Eyes and no Eyes", a regular old-fashioned, prim, sententious story.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kingsley Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at home
'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, under the title of "Eyes and No Eyes", which some of my older hearers may remember, and which I should myself be sorry to forget."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
[John?] Aikin : Essay on the use of natural history
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Aitkin's "Essay on the Use of Natural History" ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld : Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened
'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.' [also records reading this text on 6 December 1825].
