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Lyall
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Edna Lyall : Donovan: A Modern Englishman
'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Princess 'Beatrice has ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria Print: Book
Edna Lyall : We Two
'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter that Princess "Beatrice has ..."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Beatrice Print: Book
Edna Lyall : We Two
'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Baily Print: Book
Edna Lyall : Donovan: A Modern Englishman
'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Baily Print: Book
Sir Alfred Lyall : Eastern Studies, The
'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind that I have ever read. It explains from actual observation how gods are born in India at the present day; how they get promotion, if they have luck in the miraculous line of business & so forth.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book
Sir Alfred Lyall : Verses written in India
?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the poems ? Theology in Extremis ? at a sort of penny reading? I have never been the object of so many attentions before or since and gave my autograph to a dozen ladies. Independent of that, Lyall is a man worth knowing & unluckily so popular in society that I don?t often get a chance of seeing him.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book
Sir Alfred Lyall : Verses written in India
?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the poems ? Theology in Extremis ? at a sort of penny reading? I have never been the object of so many attentions before or since and gave my autograph to a dozen ladies. Independent of that, Lyall is a man worth knowing & unluckily so popular in society that I don?t often get a chance of seeing him.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Edna Lyall : novels
"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted in preference to the Edna Lyall novels which she borrowed from the prison library ..."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda Print: Book
Edna Lyall : To Right the Wrong
'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor game out of five! A result due to our refusal to play them out. ?To Right the Wrong? ( Edna Lyall)' .
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
William Rowe Lyall : [review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind]
'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of their northern neighbours: and notwithstanding the high admiration they pay to Stewarts talents, the[y] differ from him in almost all his results - because they disbelieve his principles - the "first principles" of Dr. Reid. Their opinion (and they give no reasons), on a point of this nature, is of little consequence. All the prejudices natural to Englishmen, they entertain in their full extent - and always modify their decisions accordingly[.] For my part, tho' far be it from me to attempt to disparage or vilipend this great man - I cannot help thinking, that, the perusal of his book has done me hurt. Perpetually talking about analysing perceptions, & retiring within ones self, & mighty improvements that we are to make?no one knows how, - I believe, he will generally leave the mind of his reader?crowded with disjointed notions & nondescript ideas - which the sooner he gets rid of, the better. I know you think differently; but de gustibus non est disputandum [concerning taste it is needless to dispute, ed. note]; and very probably, the fault is not with the Author - but his subject'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
Sir Alfred C. Lyall : British Dominion in India
E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for travels in India]. Also I have failed to read another of Alice Parin's [sic] novels called Idolatry. The other I tried was good, but this is about missionaries & wicked Hindus and most tiresome.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
Sir Alfred C. Lyall : Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social
'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
Edna Lyall : Autobiography of a Slander
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Unknown
Lyall : review of Stewart, Philosophy of the Human Mind
Number 24 of the [Quarterly] Review pleased Gifford very much. In writing to [John] Murray on the subject, he said [in letter of 27 January 1815] [...] ["]I will beg you to get a work for Mr. Lyall. His article, which I have looked at again, is truly excellent [...] Seriously, the sterling, manly sense of the Review pleases me very much, indeed.["]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wiliam Gifford Print: Serial / periodical
Alfred Comyn Lyall :
'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Alfred [Lyall] whose verse and prose appeal strongly to my mind and feelings.'
