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Anne Lister : Journal

Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      Manuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs

  

Anne Lister : Journal

From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over attentively exclaiming to myself, 'oh women, women'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      Manuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal

  

Lister : Life of Clarendon

Mary Berry, Journal, 30 October 1807: 'In the evening began reading the "Life of Clarendon".'

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

  

Lister : Life of Clarendon

Mary Berry, Journal, 11 November 1807: 'In the evening I read aloud "Clarendon's Life".'

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

  

Lister : Life of Clarendon

Mary Berry, Journal, 16 November 1807: 'Read "Clarendon's Life" aloud in the evening.'

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

  

T.H. Lister : Epicharis

'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. I am not the less obliged to you for sending it. You will hate me for giving you my true opinion, but you have asked me to do so and in such matters I never deceive'.

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      

  

Thomas Henry Lister : Granby

'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of good, & I hope you will send one of your most severe one's.? What an entertaining book Granby is; do you remember Lady Harriet talking about inhaling [Ni]tric Oxide? Johnson has actually done it, & describes the effects as the most intense pleasure he ever felt. We both mean to get tipsey in the Vacation.?. The old Mr. Wedgwood, I see in Ure's Chem. Dic., did nothing else but hold his nose & kick.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Book

  

T. H. Lister : Granby

Tuesday, 28 March 1826: 'Reading at intervals a novel called Grandby [sic] one of that very difficult class which aspires to describe the actual current of society; whose colours are so evanescent that it is difficult to fix them on the canvas. It is well written but over labourd -- too much attempt to put the reader exactly up to the thoughts and sentiments of the parties -- The women do this better -- Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society far superior to anything Man vain Man has produced of the like nature.'

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

 

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