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Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less difficulty in getting through him than in reading Fielding, and that as a matter of taste I actually prefer Lovelace to Tom Jones! I suppose that is one of the differences between men and women which even Ladies' Colleges will not set to rights.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Robert Bloomfield : The Farmers Boy

'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: T.W.M.

Edward Gibbon Wakefield : A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australia

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Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Thomas Whitfield : A Discourse of Liberty of Conscience...

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever books I liked ... I read all Fielding's works, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and any part of Swift that I liked." (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 3 p.372).

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord Chesterfield : Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son

'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary gossip that made her aspire to be a writer, but she had no idea which books to read until she came across Elinor Glyn's The Career of Catherine Bush. In this story of a romance between a duke and a secretary, the secretary is advised to read the Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son. Catherine McMullen visited a public library for the first time in her life and borrowed the book: "And here began my education. With Lord Chesterfield I read my first mythology. I learned my first history and geography. With Lord Chesterfield I went travelling the world. I would fall asleep reading the letters and awake around three o'clock in the morning my mind deep in the fascination of this new world, where people conversed, not just talked..." ... He launched her into a lifetime course of reading, beginning with Chaucer in Middle English, moving on to Erasmus, Donne, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and even Finnegan's Wake.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine McMullen Print: Book

Sir John Fielding :

Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a handbill from Sir John Fielding, describing this watch to have been stolen by a single highwayman on the 24th, with a reward of ten guineas over and above the reward allowed by act of parliament; between four and five that afternoon my apprentice came to me in the parlour, and brought me this watch and the handbill..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Masters Print: Handbill

Sir John Fielding :

Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26th of December; I saw it in the shop between three and four, and the prisoner came in the evening... he told me he wanted ten guineas upon this watch... I seeing it answered the description in the handbill, I took that and the bill into the parlour to my master..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Brooks Print: Handbill

Robert Bloomfield : Farmer's Boy, The

S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Bloomfield : Farmer's Boy, The

S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth

William Enfield : Speaker, The

Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in Dr Enfield's Exercises of Elocution or Speaker, I forget which.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fiction or of drama". When she read Tom Jones, "she believed every word of it and could not conceive how a man could sit down and invent the story of Squire Allworthy and Sophia and Tom out of his head".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the means to procure books, useful books, not Novels. My reading was of course devoid of method, and very desultory. I had read in English the only language in which I could read, the histories of Greece and Rome, and some translated works of Greek and Roman writers. Hume, Smollett, Fieldings novels and Robertsons works, some of Humes Essays, some Translations from french writers, and much on geography -some books on Anatomy and Surgery, some relating to Science and the Arts, and many Magazines. I had worked all the Problems in the Introduction to Guthries Geography, and had made some small progress in Geometry.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stopped short at the Romantics. In 1873 he confessed that he could not stomach avant-garde poets like Tennyson. "As for our modern novel-writers - Dickens, Thackeray and others I do not care to read them, since Smollett, Fielding and Scott especially are all I desire".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse himself in Swift, Pope, Fielding, Richarson, Smollett, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Dickens and Greek philosophy, as well as the John Dicks edition of Vanity Fair in weekly installments. The common denominator among these authors was that they were all dead. "Volumes by living authors were too high-priced for me", Keating explained. "Our schoolbooks never mentioned living writers; and the impression in my mind was that an author, to be a living author, must be dead and that his work was all the better if he died of neglect and starvation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Henry Fielding : unknown

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book

John Masefield : [unknown]

[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence "I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be admissible in drama. I am not able ? I fairly confess ? to define the dramatic element in Hugo or to say why it is absent from Fielding & Richardson. Yet surely Hugo?s own dramas are a sufficient proof that a drama may be romantic as well as a novel.?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fielding?s chief excellence appears to lie in the delineation of his characters that combine simplicity, ignorance and benevolence. His Parson Adams and his Partridge will still induce us to tolerate even Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. His mind appeared incapable of concocting a character of real virtue. His Allworthy is a prosing, self sufficient moral pedant; in Joseph Andrews virtue is ridiculous; in Tom Jones vice is honourable. Nobody now reads either but the school boy, and one of the earliest signs of an improved taste, and an advancement in Christian morality, is the rejection of both.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied his companion, "me and Pope do agree very well". Keating had himself been reading Pope, Fielding, Smollett, Goldsmith and Richardson in poorly printed paperbacks. Later he was reassigned to a less demanding job at a riverside colliery pumping station, which allowed him time to tackle Swift, Sheridan, Byron, Keats, Shelley and Thackeray'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Keating Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Beryl Lee Booker Print: Book

Henry Fielding :

'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the worse for reading them and in many cases they encouraged and developed a love of reading that led him onwards and upwards on the fascinating path of literature. It was the beloved 'bloods' that first stimulated my love of reading, and from them I set out on the road to Shaw and Wells, Thackeray and Dickens, Fielding, Shakespeare and Chaucer".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Willis Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep in the authors who to this day I regard the best discovered in a lifetime" - Fielding, Browning, Hardy, Tolstoy, even Henry James. He found them all before he was twenty, with critical guidance from no one: "We must make our own soundings and chartings in the arts... so that we may all one day climb to our own peak, silent in Darien".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Neville Cardus Print: Book

Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield : Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son

'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his lax morality is shocking to every serious thinking man.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book

Richard Field : Of the Church

H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to his son Derwent in 1819.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews

'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's "The Novice of Saint Dominick", Agnes Maria Bennett's "The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors", Edgeworth's "Tales of Andrews", "Sir Charles Grandison" and "A Sentimental Journey"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : various works

'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", in which Talbot funds a number of objectionable qualities including "irreligion" and "the pride and sauciness" of the heroine. Their "favourite" among women novelists was Sarah Fielding, many of whose works they read and discussed.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : David Simple

'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christianity not founded on argument, Randolph's answer to it... and some of David's Simple Life... an account of the Government of Venice, Montaigne's Essays.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Scott Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : many works

'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", in which Talbot finds a number of objectionable qualities including "irreligion" and "the pride and sauciness" of the heroine. Their "favourite" among women novelists was Sarah Fielding, many of whose works they read and discussed.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia (1st vol.)

'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with it; but I found the characters and situations so wretchedly low and dirty, that I imagined I could not be interested for any one of them; and to read and not to care what became of the hero and heroine, is a task that I thought I would leave to those who had more leisure than I am blessed with'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

E.M. Delafield : Provincial Lady in America

'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Rachel Field : All This and Heaven Too

[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of the Kingdom; Two Survived; Hamlet; King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse; The Snow Goose; Gerald; Early Stages; Cross Creek; Footnotes to the Ballet; The Great Ship; Hungry Hill; Hiawatha; Captain Blood; Scaramouche; Heartbreak House; Fortune's Fool; Fifth Form at St Dominic's; Cold Comfort Farm; The Lost King; The count of Monte Cristo; Diary of a Provincial Lady; Frenchman's Creek; Song of Bernadette; Romeo and Juliet; Rebecca; The Surgeon's Destiny; The Killer and the Slain; Anna; King Solomon's Mines; The Black Moth; Have His Carcase; Peacock Pie; Alice in Wonderland; The Citadel; Good Companions; Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; The Healing Knife; First Year Out; Saint Joan; Stars Look Down; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Rogue Herries; Caesar and Cleopatra; Xmas at Cold Comfort Farm; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; The Velvet Deer; Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book; A Christmas Carol; Craft of Comedy; As You Like It; Lottie Dundass; Plays of John Galsworthy; Provincial Lady in America; She Shanties; Peter Abelard; Actor, Soldier, Poet; The Best of Lamb; Some Essay of Elia; Poems, Plays etc; The White Cliffs; Three Men in a Boat; Confessions of an Opium Eater; In Search of England; Wuthering Heights; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Poems of Contemporary Women; Crime at the Club; Quality Street; Villette; Major Barbara; Pygmalion; You Never Can Tell; King John; Doctor's Dilemma'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

E.M. Delafield : Diary of a Provincial Lady

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple

'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them with great pleasure and found many new beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart!'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book

Priscilla Wakefield : Mental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield

[Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From Mental improvement Vol 1st ... Of artificial coral [page] 130, Of painting on glass [page] 156 ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

William Enfield : The Speaker

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free acess to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Robert Bloomfield : [Poems]

'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my biddings. I read Bloomfield with much interest, as I also did a copy of Montgomery's "Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems". Being at the time in poor health of body, at which times my imaginative faculty has always been morbibly active, I was unwise to read poetry of this class, which, under the circumstances, was more likely to excite uneasy feelings than to invigorate the mind. And thus it fell out; for while I read of rural scenes and also of the comparative quietude and the superior happiness of country life, I grew uneasy and heartsick of the noisy and restless town...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book

Louis Bromfield : Mrs Parkinson

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book

Henry Fielding : unknown

Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Voltaire, Sterne, Le Sage, Goldsmith and others).?

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book

Charles James Blomfield : A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Richard Byfield : The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews

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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Richard Field : Of the Church

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Richard Field : Of the Church

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Richard Field : Of the Church

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a "Robinson Crusoe", and lent me volumes containing four "Waverley Novels" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens "fan" who rather despised Scott as a "romantic" and a "Tory". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the "Waverley Novels" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me "Vanity Fair" as an antidote to "David Copperfield" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of "paperback" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book

Fields : [petition]

'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bitter petition to the King against our office, for not doing Justice upon his complaint to us of embezzlement of the King's stores by one Turpin. I took Sir Wm to Sir W. Pens (who was newly come from Walthamstowe), and there we read it and discoursed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet

Fields : [petition]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Penn Manuscript: Sheet

Anne Duffield : unknown

'"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I want. Something light to take my mind off the war - a straight romantic tale.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

E M Delafield : The Diary of a Provincial Lady

'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without war interest. For that reason I try and get books of the humourous kind, such as "Night on Wheels" by Ian Hay, and "The Diary of a Provincial Lady" by E.M. Delafield. Books that provoke a laugh. During the winter months reading's been my main hobby. As I'm a quick reader, naturally I choose a fairly thick books of average size with medium print. Never the large type. I like a substantial book, not one that I can finish quickly. On the other hand I don't like books of the size of "Gone with the Wind" or "Anthony Adverse", some 900 pages. Either of these books should have been issued in two volumes.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Rachel Field : All this and Heaven Too

'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read novels when I'm all upset. Now what have I read lately? Oh, I loved "Portrait of a Village", Brett Young: it was enchanting - "Royal Escape", "Spanish Bride", Georgette Heyer; Frankau's "Royal Regiment', oh and "Elizabeth of Bohemia". I loved that.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and was immediately ordered as much medicine as would confine an ordinary-sized horse to his stall for a week. Whether it arises from the ?influentials?, or from close application, or from worry, or from the wind cholic, to quote King Arthur, I know not; but this I know-that surely against my will, much to my disappointment, here I am, and in a gloomy and miserable state, here I must remain.?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Print: Unknown

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British Dramatists" he thought Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" "the best by head and shoulders"; Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero Worship" he admired "exceedingly" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's "Henry Esmond" he told Osborne that he thought it a "great book", though he disliked its "overelaboration": "perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Symons Print: Book

Lord Chesterfield : Modern Europe

'We began to read with Mr Jeagle[sic] instead of the modern history of the abbe Milliot "The Modern Europe" made I think by Lord Chesterfield'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Wynne sisters and tutor Mr Jaegle Print: Unknown

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot think your time mis[s]pent. It consists of letters addressed to his son - and if we compare the steady, affectionate, unbending precepts of the venerable Roman - with the only work of a similar kind in our own times - Chesterfield's advice - we shall blush for the eighteenth century!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to His Son

'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to speak plainly; & you will easily conceive, that I passed my time very heavily. I endeavoured to read several things: I tried a book of modern Biography "The British Plutarch"; but soon finding it to be a very miserable book, I shut it for good and all. I next opened the "Spectator" - and tho' his ja[u]nty manner but ill accorded with my sulky humours, I toiled thro' a volume & a half, with exemplary patience. Lastly, I had recourse to Lord Chesterfield's "advice to his son"; and I think I never before so distinctly saw the pitiful disposition of this Lord. His directions concerning washing the face & paring the nails are indeed very praiseworthy: and I should be content to see them printed in a large type, and placed in frames above the chimneypieces of boarding-schools - for the purpose of enforcing the duties of cleanliness, upon the rising generation. But the flattery, the dissimulation & paltry cunning that he is perpetually recommending, leave one little room to regret that Chesterfield was not his father. Such was the result of my studies, in my sickness: - a result highly unfavourable to those feelings of prostration before high birth & weight of purse, which (many tell us) it is so eminently the duty of all men to cultivate. Indeed this is not the first time that I have noticed in my mind, a considerable tendency to undervalue the great ones of this world'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Henry Fielding : The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews

'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at the conclusion of this Novel...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than in Joseph Andrews...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

Robert Bloomfield : The farmer?s boy

'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book

John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.) : Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself

'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.) : Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself

'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield : Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself

'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Henry Fielding : unknown

'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope

'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Lord Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too] 'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters. xColeridges Lay Sermon Memoirs of Count Gramont Somnium Scipionis Roderick Random Comus Knights of the Swan Cumberlands memoirs de se Junius' letters Journey to the World Underground D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney Round Table by W. Hazlitt Cupids Revenge Martial Maid Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher] x Tales of my Landlord Rambler Waverley Amadis de Gaul Epistolae Plinii Secundi x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius Anna St Ives Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius x Defoe on the Plague x Wilsons City of the Plague Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Quarterly Review x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore x Davis' travels in America x Godwin's Mecellanies x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Manuscrit venu de St Helene Buffon's theorie du terre Beaumont and Fletchers Plays x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist. Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy La Nouvelle Heloise Lettres Persiennes Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond Arthur Mervyn x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry. Miseries of human life x Moores odes & epistles Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau x Lamb's Specimens Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde x Mandeville x Laon and Cynthia x Lady Morgan's "France". The three brothers First vol of Humes Essays Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing']

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews

'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews

'Read Joseph Andrews'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews

'finish Joseph Andrews'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book

Sir H. Englefield : Verses on Waltzing

'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect as far as touching forcibly the proper points. They are supposed to be indignantly addressed to the man who is found waltzing with the poet's mistress: What! The girl I adore by another embraced! What! The bakm of her breath shall another man taste? [etc] Is it not excellent? Before I had seen this I had written something to render the waltz odious, which I sent to a friend in town to get inserted in some newspaper.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of Tom Jones, a foundling, The

'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination - English - Thalaba. Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy Southey's Tour in Spain Tommy Jones Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto, Gioas, La Clemenza di Tito, Catone, Regolo, Ciro, Zenobia - Tassos's Aminta - Seven Canto's of Ariosto, Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel - La bella pelegrina, La Zingana Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c French - None If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen' [The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : Bliss

Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Party], and don't mean to. I've read Bliss; and it was so brilliant, -- so hard, and so shallow, and so sentimental that I had to rush to the bookcase for something to drink. Shakespeare, Conrad, even Virginia Woolf.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : 'Bliss'

7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night, with [...] the English review for me, with [...] Katherine Mansfield on Bliss. I threw down Bliss with the exclamation, "She's done for!" Indeed I don't see how much faith in her as as woman or writer can survive that sort of story [...] her mind is a very thin soil, laid an inch or two upon very barren rock [...] she is content with superficial smartness; & the whole conception is poor, cheap, not the vision, however imperfect, of an interesting mind. She writes badly too. And the effect was as I say, to give me an impression of her callousness & hardness as a human being. I shall read it again; but I dont suppose I shall change.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoors again.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : unknown

Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C.] Squire doubts her genius -- so, I'm afraid, do I. These little points, though so cleanly collected, don't amount to much, I think. I read her at the Club last night'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Unknown

Katherine Mansfield : stories

Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if she were not so clever she coudn't be so disagreeable.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Unknown

Katherine Mansfield : Bliss

Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] Shanks' orders'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Boen Hawkesford Print: Book

Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield :

'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who flourished in King Charles the Second's time, in Bath House, containing most curious letters of the Duchess of Cleveland, Lady Southesk, and many other personages whom Count Hamilton has rendered so interesting. I will try to get Sir John to publish them, for such things should not run the risk of fire, not to mention rats and mice. There is a sort of memoir of Lord Chesterfield at the beginning of the volume, in which he says his second wife died of the spotted fever or plague; but in fact he is said to have poisoned her in the wine of the sacrament, to be revenged for her gallantries, which were notorious: that old villain, Sir John Denham, having shown him the way, by getting rid of his wife after a fashion nearly similar'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Manuscript: Letter

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : The Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All I think a little posed & twisted by illness & [John Middleton] Murry; but agonised, & at moments that direct flick at the thing seen which was her gift.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

James T. Fields : "On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature

'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e. De Quincey's three daughters], though Papa, like the dutiful parent he is, and though a "vain man", admits that our judgment in such matters is equal if not sometimes better than his. However in this case we one and all came separately to the conclusion that there was exquisite poetic grace and beauty in the lines. Who is the Poet you sent the mosses too [sic]? for we don't know one who has spoken of Venice that has been living since you could have written this. My sister Florence says that with one or two exceptions in the case of Longfellow and that most beautiful of writers Hawthorne, yours is nearly the only good thing in the book. I have not had time to look it over yet.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence De Quincey Print: Book

James T. Fields : "On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey Print: Book

Field : [book on child psychology]

'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by being sweet but sat heavily on my belly.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : [letters]

'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see all my weaknesses in her, admire her for her frantic attempts to be honest and deal with them. I can now read her, feeling her equal not an awestruck inferior as I used to. I know all she knew.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : [unknown]

'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Larkin Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : [unknown]

'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired "The Waves"); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life "The Senior Commoner" he approved for its "general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public"; and with Katherine Mansfield. "I do admire her a great deal", he told Sutton, "and feel very close to her in some things".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin Print: Book

Henry Fielding : History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impression it makes on my mind - as neither more nor less than [italics] commonplace [end italics] Perhaps she has not, but I have read so many descriptions of concentrated feelings, boiling passion under [italics] un froid exterieur [end italics], dark and gloomy minds, that this strikes me as only what I have seen fifty times before [LS then critiques 'The school of Sentiment'] By her further description I should pronounce it [italics] unwholesome [italics] reading. The smallest grain of [italics] amour physique [end italics] poisons the whole, renders it literally and positively [italics] beastly [end italics], for it is describing the sensations of a brute animal. And here lies the difference between even [italics] bad [end italics] English books and the French ones, which everyone reads without blushing. Mrs Bellamy and Mrs Baddeley, two women of the town, whom I remember as actresses, wrote their Memoirs. They painted their first false steaps either as the effect of seduction, they were victims to the arts employed to ruin them, or else they had been led away by their [italics] affections [end italics]; they had conceived a violent passion for such and such a man, whom they took pains to paint as formed to captivate the [italics] heart [end italics]. Madame Roland, one of the heroines of the French Revolution, a [italics] virtuous [end italics] woman, so far as chastity goes, writes her Memoirs and tells you what were her [italics] sensations towards the opposite sex in general [end italics] (without any particular object) at 14 or 15 years old!!! And young ladies were taught to read and admire this who would not have been allowed to open "Tom Jones", where Fielding does describe [italics] l'amour physique [end italics] between Tom and Molly Seagrim, but I daresay would as soon have given Sophia an inclination to commit murder as hinted that she ever had Madame Roland's [italics] sensations[end italics], or even that Tom had them towards her'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan Harrington when I had chicken pox, 19, and felt this strongly]'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was contested in the Court of Session in Scotland, and Mr Henry Dundas, one of the counsel read this character [of the 'respectable Hottentot'], as an exhibition of Johnson, Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, one of the Judges, maintained with some warmth, that it was not intended as a portrait of Johnson, but of a late noble Lord, distinguished for abstruse science'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Dundas Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood, by a more superficial observer, than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart." It always appeared to me that he estimated the compositions of Richardson too highly, and that he had an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding. In comparing those two writers, he used this expression ; "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." '

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book

Henry Fielding : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being a blockhead is, that he was a barren rascal." Boswell. "Will you not allow, sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" Johnson. "Why, sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all 'Tom Jones'. I indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.'" Erskine. "Surely, sir, Richardson is very tedious." Johnson. "Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment." I have already given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot refrain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's excessive and unaccountable depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced. "Tom Jones" has stood the test of publick opinion with such success as to have established its great merit, both for the story, the sentiments, and the manners, and also the varieties of diction, so as to leave no doubt of its having an animated truth of execution throughout.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sale, considering that they were the letters of a statesman, a wit, one who had been so much in the mouths of mankind, one long accustomed [italics] virum volitare per ora [end italics]".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to his Son

' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the immorality, and it should be put into the hands of every young gentleman.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Memoirs and Last Letters

' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book

John Masefield : Gallipoli

'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty literature as I had collected from home - Thomas Hardy's poems, John Masefield's "Gallipoli", numerous copies of "Blackwood's Magazine", and the recently published Report of the Commission on the Dardanelles.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Serial / periodical, magazines

John Masefield : The Loom of Youth

'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading "The Loom of Youth" in bits....It is very good and it is very true even if slightly exaggerated....'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Brittain

Nicholas Byfield : The Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godly Man

'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, according to which thus I find my selfe for present' [there follows a list of five 'signs', a couple keyed to page numbers in the book.]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : 'To Miss Salusbury'

'[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinary God knows, but I dare say they are hers; though there seems to be no great attention to Grammar in them considering she was an able Scholar both in the Latin Language and the Greek'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Fielding :

'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the Husk of Life perfectly well - & for the Kernel - you must go to either Richardson or Rousseau'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes the History of Manners certainly, yet those which give one nothing else are paltry performances: witness Tom Jones and the Clandestine Marriage, yet they are the best in their kind acording to my Notion'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book

William Enfield : History of Philosophy, From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century

Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overjoyd at a reprieve than I was at the recovery. I have begun to transcribe Joan of Arc — read Enfield History of Philosophy, Gillies History of Greece V.2nd & begun Adam Smith since my return so you see Bristol does not make me idle. I may not form a taste here but I can increase a stock of useful knowledge and you know the prettiest nosegays are formed of various flowers.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : The Samuel Josephs

The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the connection between trees & human beings is not very strong. But really this article is the goods. The Tomlinson article is also magnificent. Not better stuff than this is being done. The K.M. story is excellently characteristic. Mr. Joiner is good; it halts at the beginning. . . . I think the number is simply splendid—especially for a first number. & you are to be seriously & gravely congratulated upon it.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Kingsley as religious leader]

'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a visit to Warsley [?]. Readings were given by Mrs Stansfield, Mrs Goadby and A. Rawlings.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [Paper on Life of Fitzgerald and Omar's Philosophy]

'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith Song from Omar by Mr Goadby Paper on Fitzgerald's Life and Omar's Philosophy by C.E. Stansfield Notes on Legalliennes Rhubaiyat [sic] by A Rawlings.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Pattie Stansfield : [paper on Browning]

'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some characteristics of the poet. Mr Goadby read Garden Fancies & Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha. Mrs Rawlings read Evelyn Hope. Mr Edminson Phedippides Mrs Smith May & Death & Prospice A Rawlings One Word More.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Katherine Mansfield : Letters and diary

'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read her letters again. The trouble with her seems to be that she luxuriated in emotion far too much. Admittedly the head is an evil thing & I'm a tied-up bugger, but anyone who can spew out their dearest and closest thoughts, hopes, and loves to J. M. Murry must be a bit of an anus.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin

Henry Fielding : Tom Thumb the Great

Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'.

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Shakespeare]

'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an introduction to readings & songs from the poet's works, the programme consisting of the folowing. Song. Sigh no more Ladies Mrs Cass Reading from Cymbeline A.F.H. Rawlings " from Hamlet Mrs Stansfield Paper on Hamlet C.L. Stansfield reading from Taming of Shrew Mr and Mrs Cass " " Much Ado Miss Neild " " Henry V Mr and Mrs Edminson song Who is Sylvia Mrs Cass'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [Paper delivered to XII Book Club]

'Mrs Goadby then sang a song which was followed by a paper by Mr Stansfield on "The Hasty"'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [Paper on Ruskin's Economics]

'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with reference to "Unto this Last".' [the lengthy discussion that ensued is given in the MS]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on "Tennyson and his Books"]

'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby. Mr Ridges also recited Sir Galahad and St Agnes Eve'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [Paper on Charles Lamb]

'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to the works of Charles Lamb. Papers were read by Miss Goadby and C.E. Stansfield and readings were given by Miss Pollard, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Ridges and A Rawlings'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Fielding : Amelia

'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; "Don Quixote" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on 'The Soul of a People']

'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his book of Christianity & Buddhism necessitated impartiality between the religions on the part of critic [sic]. The role of philosophic doubter assumed for the time by the writer added greatly to the interest of the paper & the discussion which followed. Mrs Ridges afterwards read from the Light of Asia & Mrs Stansfield from Dhammapada'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Spenser]

'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Emerson]

'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoints. Selections from his writings were read by Miss Pollard, Edward Little & A. Rawlings'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on H. G. Wells's 'Mankind in the Making']

'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals and C.E. Stansfield of the Educational system suggested by the author. Both papers prompted considerable discussion'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [Paper responding to Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration]

'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration was discussed in many of its bearings, introduced by C.E. Stansfield in a paper having special reference to the housing problem. It was generally considered that there was much more in the report offering material for interesting discussion so that the committee appointed to arrange the programme of the evening was continued with the addition of Mrs Wallis to prepare a programme for the next meeting'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [a paper on Carlyle]

'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle & his philosophy and Mrs Stansfield an extract from Sartor Resartus. Mr Rowntree gave a general resume of Sartor Resartus.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [essay on Shaw's Life and Works]

'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's Dilemma" & next F.J. Edminson, W.S. Rowntree & Percy Kaye a part reading from "Man & Superman" & C.I. Evans completed the programme by reading in the Introduction to Fabian Essays'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield :

'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings gave brief readings from Beeching, Alice Maynell [sic] & Frogley's Voice from the Trees'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Chaucer's Life and Times]

'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Cervantes]

'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Henry Newbolt]

'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [essay on Twain]

'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson Manuscript: Unknown

Pattie Stansfield : [letter to the XII Book Club]

'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin Manuscript: Letter

Charles Stansfield : [paper on H.G. Wells' religious development]

'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the growth of Wells' mind & thought as revealed in the series of published writings and showed by extracts from '1st & last things', 'God the invisible King' & 'The Soul of a Bishop' the striking development of his religious nature. Miss Hayward & Mrs Smith read extracts in support of this view.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Goethe's 'Faust']]

'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finished when over 80 yrs is an expression of his own life & the influences which played upon it during the period of 60 years a period beginning in storm & stress & ending in calmness. The paper brought out very well the story of the bargain, the fulfilling of the terms & the final rescue of Faust by a horde of angels.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [paper on Bunyan's writing]

'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the right historical & religious setting of Bunyan. C.E. Stansfield read an Appreciation of Pilgrim's Progress & of the writing of Bunyan. He referred to Bunyan & Milton as the two writers who expressed most completely the Puritan ideal. He expected Pilgrim's Progress to live as it expressed the universal quest of mankind. There were several readings from Bunyan's works which added greatly to the interest. Mrs Smith read from 'Grace Abounding' the book which is his spiritual autobiography. R.H. Robson read the Fight with Apollyon C.I. Evans [ditto] The trial scene in Vanity Fair Mrs Unwin [ditto] The Interpreter's House. In the general discussion some doubt was expressed of C.E. Stansfield's opinion that the Pilgrim's progress will live. It was felt by some that the story will always be attractive to children, but that the puritan flavour & crude theology would prevent it becoming anything more than an interesting historical document for older people'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : [essay entitled 'Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life']

'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life" Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals" C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough. Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden" Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning. E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud" Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables. C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden" interval for supper Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling Miss Hayward. Song. R.H. Robson Violin Solo C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master Mrs Robson. Song.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield :

'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the topgraphy of his poems. C.I. Evans then read three short poems "Sea Change", "Cargoes" & "Ships" which well illustrated the poet's love of Ships & the Sea. H.R. Smith read from the earlier part of "Reynard the Fox" illustrating his love of energy the open air & his vivid portraiture of very round human types. This was followed by an interesting discussion on the quality of Masefield's work. H.M. Wallis read a moving passage from Gallipoli. After supper Mrs Reynolds read several short poems of personal feeling Tewkesbury Rd, Beauty, I Went into the Fields, Laugh & be Merry & By a Bierside. To conclude the evening Mr Burrow read the latter portion of "The Everlasting Mercy".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Everlasting Mercy, The'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Sea Change'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Cargoes'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Ships'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Reynard the Fox'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith Print: Book

John Masefield : Gallipoli

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis

John Masefield : 'Tewkesbury Road'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Beauty'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds Print: Book

John Masefield : 'I Went into the Fields'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds Print: Book

John Masefield : 'Laugh and be Merry'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds Print: Book

John Masefield : 'By a Bierside'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Reynolds Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [essay on Byron]

'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he belonged to the Romantic Movement especially as it was a Recoil of the Human Spirit against Tyranny. His work is witty & vitriolic full of energy & passion. Mr Robson expounded Childe Harold to us and Alfred Rawlings read to us from the same poem 4th canto. Mr Robson then read The Isles of Greece and Mr Pollard a stirring passage the Giaour'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles Stansfield : One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom

'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly acclaimed others proved very difficult to locate. Some thoughts on Racing attributed to R. Wallis One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom C.E. Stansfield Intimations of Immortality R.H. Robson The Lady of the Marsh Mrs R.B. Graham If Christianity had Won R.B. Graham The Revolt of the Innocents Geo Burrow Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals H.M. Wallis Revenge or Justice C Evans Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition H.M. Wallis A Scandalous Affair [illegible symbol]'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: members of XII Book Club Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Fielding :

'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : The Governess

[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fielding's proof, which relates to Mrs. Teachum's method of punishing her scholars; and give me leave to tell you my reasons for thinking it rather better to remain as she has left it, than to have it altered even as [italics]you[end italics] proposed [goes on to discuss treatment of theme of punishment in text in detail].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: J[?ane] Collier Print: Unknown, In proof

Fielding : [?The] Patriot

Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751: 'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age [...] Have you read Fielding's excellent, incomparable "Patriot," truly patriot book? or the Bishop of Worcester upon Gin? -- Yet these things can be published, talked of, acknowledged to be just and well writ, and not wake one statesman out of his dream of ambition, or fashion, or amusement, into care of the real interests of the public. Not one heart seems to glow with the desire of extirpating villainy or preventing misery and pain. Very soon we shall be a nation of savages.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia (volumes 1 and 2)

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read to my mother last night while we were undressing were whimsical enough and not at all low. I have not read Amelia, yet, but have seen it read and commented upon much to my edification by that good Bishop of Gloucester, who seldom misses spending two or three days of the week at this deanery [...] I have been particularly delighted with some of our afternoons, when we have sat unmolested by my dressing-room fire-side, he reading Amelia (and quarreling excessively at the two first volumes) my mother and I reading or working, or following our own devices as it might happen, and every one mixing little interruptions of chat as things come into their heads; with not a single ring at the door to disturb us.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Martin Benson Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751: 'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia is past my skill, as it does not appear that she was in very good health when she read the book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Mulso Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'At last we have begun Amelia, it is very entertaining. I do love Dr Harrison and the good Serjeant; and Mrs James's visit to Amelia has extremely diverted me. How many Mrs James's in that good-for-nothing London! But Mr Fielding's heroines are always silly loving runaway girls. Amelia makes an excellent wife, but why did she marry Booth?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family. Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : Letters

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local countryside (around Oxford): 'Yesterday we set off soon after four [...] Our road lay through a most pleasant country. In the coach we amused ourselves with some of the seventh volume of Mad. de Sevigne's Letters, and some of Mrs Fielding's. 'Tis vexatious in the last-named book to find such a mixture of refinement a perte de vue proceeding from her inclination to support, I fancy, a false system [...] But where she writes naturally one loves and honours her extremely; there is a goodness of heart and a delicacy of sentiment that makes me think you happy in her acquaintance.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : The Cry

Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754: 'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my way till very lately, and I read it with low spirits, but upon the whole it pleased me mightily. There is sometimes rather too strong a spirit of refining in it, which I believe is the case in all Mrs Fielding's compositions, and she often puts me in mind of Tacitus. But is she not in general a most excellent writer?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : The Cry

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much out of charity with one sign-post painting in it, to name it to you. Ferdinand's way of making love did charm me, but his hard-hearted, dishonest, lying, unnatural absurdity of behaviour at last provoked me absolutely beyond all patience.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : [letter to his son]

'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in French two amusing letters one by Madame de Sevigny & one by Victor Hugo. C. I. Evans read two [?] Ladies Battle & K.S. Evans two by R.L. Stevenson F.E. Pollard read letters by G.B. Shaw & J.M. Barrie to Mrs Patrick Campbell on the death of her son killed in action. Geo Burrow read several characteristic epistles of Charles Lamb & Howard R. Smith part of a letter by Lord Chesterfield to his son. The Club were also much interested by seeing a number of Autograph letters from famous folk shown by various members of the Club.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Miscellanies

[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, which I had not patience to read through. My present study is Plato's Republic. I have got through as much as I can read of Fielding's Miscellanies, which I never saw before. Did you ever read them? and are they not extremely good and extremely bad?'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Sarah Fielding : The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:] 'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share with her, and we study the various characters of the poultry with infinite amusement. Two of our hens are called Cleopatra and Octavia, my mother named them, and with perfect justice, and we divert ourselves with studying how the chickens take after them. These names put me in mind to ask you how could Mrs Fielding who is so good a woman make Octavia self-sufficient under suffering and trials, and not so much as hint the smallest degree of uninstructed piety as even heathens had [...] I do not love any dialogues of the dead, because it is representing a true and awful state in generally a false light [...] Fine people are too apt to think they may live very happy, and be very remarkably good without any religion, and Octavia will convince them of it, for her story is enchantingly told, and in some parts made [italics] even me [end italics] cry very heartily -- [italics] even me [end italics] as if I was of adamant.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book

Charles Stansfield : [essay on gardening]

'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Pattie Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters to His Son

[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:] 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete system of French morality that ever disgraced the English language. A system founded neither on principles of virtue, nor sentiments of heart, but upon those selfish motives, which aim at nothing higher than mere bienseance, and which never yet, through the general course of life, procured to any character, confidence, or esteem, or love [comments further].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Voyage to Lisbon

[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:] 'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last piece, called his Voyage to Lisbon. That a man, who had led such a life as he had, should trifle in that manner when immediate death was before his eyes, is amazing. From this book I am confirmed in what his other works had fully persuaded me of, that with all his parade of pretences to virtuous and humane affections, the fellow had no heart.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edwards Print: Book

Charles E. Stansfield : [essay on a Swiss holiday]

'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elliott was wellcomed to the club in a felicitous speech by the chairman

3 The Secretary read a letter of resignation of Membership from Muriel Bowman Smith he was directed unanimously to ask her to reconsider the matter.

[...]

7 Holiday Essays were read R H Robson a family holiday at Mort[?] Geo Burrow The Jamboree & thoughts thereon C. E. Stansfield on a Swiss Holiday whilst H M Wallis chatted on some aspects of Bordighera.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield : Beauty

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield : Posted Missing

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow

John Masefield : Sard Harker

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis Print: Book

John Masefield : Midsummer Night

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Clough

John Masefield : Philip the King

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edgar Castle

John Masefield : Philip the King

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mignon Castle

John Masefield : Philip the King

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard

John Masefield : Philip the King

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith

John Masefield : Philip the King

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus A. Reynolds

Charles E. Stansfield : [a paper on Goethe]

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.

[...]

8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.

9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.

10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].

11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]

12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.

13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.

14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander

15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.

16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles E. Stansfield : [Safety First]

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]

Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.

Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.

Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.

A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.

Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Manuscript: Unknown

Charles E. Stansfield : [an introduction to 'Sumer Is Icumen In']

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair

1 Minutes of last read and approved

2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee

[...]

4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.

Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.

C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.

H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"

F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"

M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"

Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.

E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles E. Stansfield : Canaries

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.

[...]

5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.

The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]

6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]

7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]

8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]

9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]

10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]

11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]

12. Here is the complete list. —

“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook

Charles E. Stansfield : [a biographical sketch of Percy Bysshe Shelley with an estimate of his views and character]

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.

5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.

These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

Charles E. Stansfield : [A detailed biographical sketch of Æ (AE, or George William Russell)]

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.

7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.

8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.

9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles E. Stansfield Manuscript: Unknown

John Masefield : Gallipoli

'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn Print: Book

John Masefield : Gallipoli

'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).'

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