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Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel [John] Hutchinson

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

  

Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson

'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Sister have read the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which is a most valuable and interesting Book. - My Brother speaks of it with unqualified approbation, and he intends to read it over again.'

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

  

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson

'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read Mrs Hutchinson's account of the troubles there in Oliver Cromwell's time.'

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

  

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town

'On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: "Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'? Very, very rarely has any book so greatly delighted me."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

  

William Hutchinson : History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, The

'At some time between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied the epitaph of Sir George Vane at the parish church of Long Newton, Durham, as published in [William] Hutchinson, [History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 20.'

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

  

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson

Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [...] I am more delighted with Mrs. Hutchinson [i.e. Lucy Hutchinson's "Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson"] than with any book I have read for an age. She was a really superior woman, both as to head and heart. Her description and account of her husband's attachment to her is the truest, the most elevated and admirable picture of love and true affection from and to a superior mind that can be imagined.'

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

  

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'.

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

  

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy

'[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which ignorant people bear to the wise says -- "hating that light which [...] reprooved their darkness."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy

'Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

J. Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson... to which is prefixed the Life of Mrs Hutchinson written by herself

'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs'

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

 

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