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Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster : letter with poem
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webster] ... **** [Lady Frances]'s contained also a very pretty lyric on 'concealed griefs' - of not her own, then very like her."
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter
James Wedderburn Webster : Waterloo and Other Poems
Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderburne Webster -- and Ilderim -- and the Pamphleteer. -- --'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown
James Wedderburn Webster : Waterloo and Other Poems
Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was not a little astonished to find an epitaph upon myself -- the desert of which I would postpone for a few years at least ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical
?John ?Webster :
H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make pencil notes on Webster, steadying the text against his knee,'"
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rupert Brooke Print: Book
John Webster : The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
'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
Webster : unknown
'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
John Webster : The Duchesse of Malfy
'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good play.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfy
'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately with the highest pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould Print: Book
John Webster : The White Devil
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately with the highest pleasure'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Arnould Print: Book
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike of the Elizabethan dramatist John Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi was read and admired by the "X" Society.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: The 'X' Society Print: Book
Alexander Webster : [census of Scotland]
'[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they are, indeed, much less positive than, if he can trust his own book, which he laid before me, he is able to give'. [A footnote says] 'A manuscript account drawn by Dr. Webster of all the parishes in Scotland, ascertaining their length, breadth, number of inhabitants, and distinguishing Protestants and Roman Catholicks. This book had been transmitted to government, and Dr. Johnson saw a copy of it in Dr. Webster's possession'.
