UK Reading Experience Database - Browse Author Writings [

Listings for Author:

[

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

[n/a] : The Apocryphal New Testament

[Marginalia]

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

'Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Print: Book

[n/a] : Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper

Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery: 'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what murders and robberies there is now!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper

Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper: "The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my family's dinner to the bakehouse, bring it home after chapel, and read Lloyd's Weekly"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper

anon [working people] : ["half-penny Ballads"]

William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808: '... I find, among the people I am speaking of, half-penny Ballads, and penny and two-penny histories, in great abundance; these are often bought as charitable tributes to the poor Persons who hawk them about (and it is the best way of procuring them); they are frequently stitched together in tolerably thick volumes, and such I have read; some of the contents, though not often religious, very good; others objectionable, either for the superstition in them (such as prophecies, fortune-telling, etc.) or more frequently for indelicacy.'

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

[unknown] : [books about voyages]

Statement of juvenile offender: "When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportunities of reading then, voyages and such; read the Life of Jack Sheppard. I borrowed it from another boy... I read 'Jack Sheppard' about five months before I began the robberies."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book

[n/a] : The Daily Chronicle

'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music...", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: "I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'.

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

Robert Charles Dallas [?] : [poem]

Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The poem from which you have done me the honour to enlose some extracts --I saw in M.S. last year at the hands of Mr. Murray and expressed my wonder that he did not publish it ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Old Testament

When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes (said he) I have read the Old Testament twice through in the Hebrew, and the New Testament often through in the Greek; and if you please to examine me in any particular place, I shall endeavour to give you an account of it. Nay (said the Bishop) if it be so, I shall need to say no more to you; only some words of Commendation and encouragement he gave him, and so with other assistants, he Ordained him.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

[n/a] : Scriptures

For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise continually: so that his House was a little Church. Thrice a day he had the Scriptures read, and after that the Psalm, or Chapter were ended, he used to ask all his children and servants what they remembred, and whatsoever Sentences they rehearsed, he would speak something out of them that might tend to their edification.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

Oxoniensis [pseud.] : Remonstrance against Cain

Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical drama Cain] -- but I perceive one upon you in the papers which I confess that I did not expect.'

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

[unknown] : [political history]

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's The Decline of the West'.

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

[unknown] : [Ancient Greek literature]

'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, "sometimes to the detriment of my weaving".'

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

Ouida [pseud] : [unknown]

'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fergus Hume's 'The Mystery of the Hansom Cab' (1887), and stories by Miss M. E. Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, and Ouida."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Tellar Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [basic economics textbook]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics textbook, as well as "Little Women".'

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

[unknown] : [various history and biography]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

[anon] : Aristotle's Masterpiece

'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At last we understood what was meant when, during Scripture lessons, reference was made to 'the mother's womb'".'

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

[anon] : Aristotle's Masterpiece

'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's Masterpiece over general giggles: "It contained explicit pictures of the developent of a foetus; in turn we read out passages. This went on until our boss Abe interrupted us. We felt so ashamed and from then on kept even further away from the VD clinic and became very dubious about the male sex'

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

[unknown] : [physiology textbooks]

'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow Gargantua and Pantagruel, which was no more helpful: "the love passages in the tales were meaningless and boring and I skipped them".'

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

[unknown] : [medical book]

'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."'

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

[unknown] : [reports on education in Prussia]

'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' and Shakespeare, and ... polish off seven love-stories at the same time ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [romantic fiction]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [American literature]

'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'.

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

Moliere [pseud] : [unknown]

'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books which ... he read repeatedly -- four or five times in the case of "The Egoist", he declared in 1887.'

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

[unknown] : [old plays]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

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

[unknown] : [home medical books]

'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular press. But when she approached the subject as a girl, she was far more fearful than informed: "At the board school all the girls were morbidly interested in parturition, menstruation, and procreation... We raked the Bible for information, and those of us who came from homes in which there were books made endless research, looking up in encyclopaedias and home medical works, such words as 'confinement', 'miscarriage', 'after-birth'... We were both fascinated and horrified. At the age of twelve I ploughed through a long and difficult book on embryology"... She copied passages from The Song of Songs into her commonplace book, but was disgusted when she came across the phrase, "Esau came forth from his mother's belly": "It seemed unspeakably dreadful, conjured up visions of sanguinary major operations. I was very miserable...".'

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

[unknown] : [children's comics]

[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later memoirs] 'he confessed a liking for Burns, Scott, the Brontes, Mrs Gaskell, children's comics and Olivier's film of Hamlet... Of course he admired Dickens, and not only the obvious Oliver Twist: the communist MP was prepared to admit that he appreciated the satire of the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [school stories from The Captain]

'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me a thirst for good literature", eventually leading to the works of Karl Marx and his followers'.

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

[unknown] : [boys' weeklies]

'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his parents on the evils of capitalism'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [travel books]

'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But hardly anyone in their neighbourhood ever ventured outside it'.

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

[unknown] : [American History]

'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked second only in my estimation to Robert Burns and Walter Scott. One of his ...favourite books was a popular biography of James Garfield, 'From Log Cabin to White House'".'

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

George Eliot [pseud] :

'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recognise the affinities of high and low literature. Thus he discerningly characterised "Treasure Island" as "the usual penny blood sort of story, with the halo of greatness about it".'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

[unknown] : [novels]

'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly liked mathematics because it was slow reading: "A treatise on algebra or geometry, which cost but a very few shillings, afforded me matter for close study for a year".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [biblical criticism]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [treatises on algebra and geometry]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

[unknown] : [Sunday School prize books]

'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. The only ones in our house were the Bible, a few thin Sunday School prizes, which were mostly very pious publications, and a Post Office directory from 1867, whch volume I read from cover to cover".'

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

[anon] : The Holy War

'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, "A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'".'

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

[unknown] : [religious magazines]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes

Henry Torrens [Sir] : Field exercises and evolutions of the army

And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursing my folly in having put no books into my portmanteau. The only book I have seen here, is one which lies upon the sofa. It is entitled ?Field Exercises and Evolutions of the Army by Sir Henry Torrens.? I have read it through so often, that I am sure I could drill a hundred recruits from memory.

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

[unknown] : [detective thrillers]

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

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

[unknown] : [Western novels]

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a coupe of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

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

[n/a] : [local and sports papers]

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

[n/a] : [local and sports papers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [Western novels]

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

[unknown] : [detective thrillers]

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

[unknown] : [children's books]

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

[unknown] : [travel books, including some on Tibet]

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

[n/a] : The Wizard

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Hotspur

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical

[anon] : The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

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

[n/a] : [books on model railways]

'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'

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

[n/a] : [a Latin-English Dictionary]

'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"... Chaplin could be found in his dressing room studying a Latin-English dictionary, Robert Ingersoll's secularist propaganda, Emerson's "Self- Reliance" ("I felt I had been handed a golden birthright"), Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Hazlitt, all five volumes of Plutarch's Lives, Plato, Locke, Kant, Freud's "Psychoneurosis", Lafcadio Hearn's "Life and Literature", and Henri Bergson - his essay on laughter, of course... Chaplin also spent forty years reading (if not finishing) the three volumes of "The World as Will and Idea" by Schopenhauer, whose musings on suicide are echoed in Monsieur Verdoux'.

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

[Von Buch] : [a tour in Denmark]

'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor Jamieson [comments on contents]'

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

[Von Buch] : [A Tour in Denmark]

'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day without any rain voila Mr Buch once more. At Skey eagles are much dreaded [...]'

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

[Von Buch] : [A Tour in Denmark]

'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]'

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

[unknown] : [account of Bounty mutiny]

[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have trembled with Jane Eyre as the first Mrs Rochester rent her bridal veil in maddened jealousy. I have been shipwrecked with Masterman Ready and on Pitcairn Island with Fletcher Christian. I have been a medieval page in Sir Nigel and Lorna Doone madly in love with 'girt Jan Ridd'".

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

Malvina [pseud.] : [poetry]

'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poetical description; these were of a good class, & abundantly bestowed. Archdeacon Wrangham wrote an original piece for the work 'Lines on the sea bathing infirmary at Scarborough'. The Mss of George Berret, the Younger, were freely offered to my use; & Hermione (Mrs Ballantyre, widow of the celebrated Publisher in Edinburgh) kindly controbuted. I also reprinted the celebrated pieces under the signature of Malvina, from The Scarborough Repository.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [Life of Scott]

'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[anon] : [ballads]

'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his grandmother) and "The Imitation of Christ" (read to his mother on her deathbed). He then learned algebra by surreptitiously reading Fenning's textbook: his master's son owned the book and had deliberately hidden it from him'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [magazines]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a "strange mixture of Morality, History and Novels in my reading", but although she itemises some of the morality and history she is uninformative about the novels.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Faith Gray Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Roget's Thesaurus

'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesaurus... When he chaired the Tredegar Library Committee, ?60 of its ?300 acquisitions budget was delegated to a colliery repairman to buy philosophy books. Bevan could quote Nietzsche, discuss F.H. Bradley's "Appearance and Reality", and deeply impress an Oxford tutor with his crique of Kant's "Categorical Imperative"... Bevan was... deeply influenced by "The Theory of the Leisure Class".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book

[unknown] : John O' London's

'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" past customs. In "John O'London's" and "The Nation", in William MacDougall's Home University Library volume on "Psychology" and F.A. Servante's "Psychology of the Boy", he read up on Freud. In a few years he knew enough to ghost-write BBC lectures on modern psychology'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Nation

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [Russian literature]

'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.

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

[Byng] : An appeal to the people: containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the Secr[etary] of the Ad[miralt]y

'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public on behalf of Admiral Byng wherein he is clearly proved to be no ways guilty of what has been laid to his charge, nay even so far from it that he behaved like a prudent and courageous commander in the Mediterranean; and his bad luck proceeded from an inferior fleet, and one which our treacherous or simple ministers, or the Lords of the Admiralty, or whoever the planners of the voyage were, could never expect to have success, having but few men, not one hospital, nor fireship...I also read Bally's poem...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful and entertaining books. A child of his landlady read to him as he lay upon a sofa, while he endeavoured to fancy himself, as he said, a gentleman of fashion paying the penalty of a debouch.'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my thoughts were far away, and I knew not what I had read.'

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

[unknown] : [French pocket dictionary]

'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionnary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'

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

[n/a] : Testament

'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'

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

[n/a] : Telemaque

'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper advertisements]

'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without a hope of finding employment of some other kind, in case the printing should fail.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Moniteur

'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with madam - sometimes I read aloud from some work of history of philosophy selected by the Doctor.'

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

[n/a] : The Times

'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it came to my turn, they could never understand my "professional" mode of reading, and made me many humble requests for explanation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Bible

'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice of my good old dad, as he read deliberately the psalms and the prayer as in the days when I lay in my mother's lap while she soothed little Ned to silence in her arms.'

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

[unknown] : [prayer book]

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

[n/a] : The Weekly Dispatch

'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and days they were to have the paper read.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: villagers of South Mimms Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [various titles]

'I was fond of reading when at home, but we had not an abundance of books; so as soon as I settled at Notting Hill, I often in the evening made my way to Oxford and other streets where I could find open bookshops, and in the course of a couple of years I had purchased and read a fair selection of our standard authors, and, as I shall mention in future pages, I became fairly well acquainted with the drama and the players. I am afraid I was rather more fond of the drama and works of fiction than of books of more general interest.'

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

[n/a] : British Controversionalist

?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educator", "Historical Educator" and "Educational Course"? Cassell?s publications, cheap and solid, were a great book to me. The "Popular Educator" was my chief handbook. Always fond of linguistics studies, I tackled lessons in English, in French and in Latin.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a : Popular Educator

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Educational Course

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Cornhill Magazine

?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I knew it was on sale, I walked to Beddington and came home the proud possessor of the first number. Thackeray?s "Roundabout papers" and some of his stories I read with much gusto. Before the year was out there appeared in the Cornhill a series of remarkable papers by John Ruskin, "Unto this last". These I read with avidity from beginning to end. Long and deep did I ponder over them. The style ? so simple, so beautiful, so telling ? captivated me??

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Newcastle Chronicle

'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From beginning to end the letter was a fierce diatribe against the strikers, the Miner's Union, and the Secretary of the Union.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : London Journal

?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodical which I read with great gusto. It was full of adventures, of mild, romantic stories depicting duels and battles, deeds of daring, hairbreadth escapes by land and sea, the heroes being banditti, pirates, robbers and outlaws. This stirred my blood and excited the youthful imagination. When my father caught me reading it he gently chided me for wasting my time on such rubbishy stuff. Wretched garbage no doubt it was, yet, after all, perhaps the time given to it was not wholly wasted. No useful information, indeed, was gained, but I was acquiring facility in reading and laying hold of the golden key which would open to me the rich treasures of a great literature.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Psalms

?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them over again. In my own experience, the monotony of this proceeding had a most unhappy effect ? the Psalms became so uninteresting, not to say repetitive, that all through life I have failed to appreciate properly the beauty of those grand Eastern compositions.?

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

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers and books bought for general reading were afterwards divided. In our little club the "Cornhill Magazine", from its start under Thackeray?s editorship, was read and discussed; also Dickens?s successive productions. I call to mind many serious books, as well as "Cassell?s Magazine" and the "London Journal", in which appeared Miss Braddon?s great story of "Henry Dunbar", then entitled "The Outcasts".?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Cassell's Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : London Journal

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : New Testament

??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the Revelations, and my father, not a little pleased, would at times sit down, and in his way explain the meaning of the strange things about which I read. After I had gone through the Revelations, I began with the Gospel of Saint Matthew, and was deeply interested by the miracles, sufferings and death of our Lord. The New Testament was now my shiny book, and I read it all through and through, but more for the interest the marvellous passages excited, than from any religious impression which they caused.?

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] : Egmont

'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [French novel]

'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[unknown] : [dramatists' works]

'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus establishing myself as a (qualified) Whitmaniac.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[unknown] : [Roman History]

'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last book which came out a few days ago, which I bought and read this afternoon (I had a meddlesome red pencil with which I slightly disfigured it) and which I think spendidly spirited.' [followed by a judgment on the book]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

[various] : The Leader

'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : The Athenaeum

'Read "Athenaeum"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : The Contemporary Literature

'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : The Armenian Magazine

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maudrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging through an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : The History of England

'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery"; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'

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

[n/a] : The Testament

?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford's wife and child Print: Book

[n/a] : Weekly Dispatch

[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time replaced with The Examiner.] ?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Examiner

[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time replaced with 'The Examiner'.] ?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Chambers's Journal

?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?

[n/a] : Arminian Magazine

'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's Magazine"; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many things than I had previously been able to command.'

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

[n/a] : Gentleman's Magazine

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

[unknown] : History of England

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall 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

[unknown] : History of Rome

'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 access 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

[n/a] : Spectator, The

'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator" deserves particular notice. Where it came from or to whom it belonged, I never knew: I discovered it in my Master's kitchen. On opening it I was struck by the seeming oddity of its contents. As the book promised to give me a little amusement, I forthwith set about reading it. I was at first a good deal mystified about its author, character and design, yet I was much gratified with it.'

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

[n/a] : Lloyd's Evening Post

'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's Evening Post", and at this I sometimes got a hasty peep. At first, as was natural, I was chiefly interested with the domestic news: I took care to read about "The moving accidents by fire or flood", with an account of which a newspaper commonly abounds. But my curiosity was not long confined to these "little things". It soon led me to look at the articles of foreign intelligence...'

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

[n/a] : The Wreath

'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was "The Grave", which soon commended itself to my hearty and unqualified approbation...Besides this poem the volume contained "The Minstrel", of which I venture to say that I consider it to be of almost unequalled beauty and interest... There was here yet another poem which arrested my attention as fully as much as did "The Grave" or "The Minstrel". This was entitled "Death" - a prize winning poem written by that eminently good man Dr Porteus...'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possible, I rose early: if the mornings were at all fine, I walked in the adjacent fields where I found ample amusement in either reading the book of nature or some humbler volume, without which I took care never [last word underlined] to go out on these excursions.'

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

[n/a] : The Spectator

'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his "Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque "pastorals". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called "The Village Curate", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.

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

[n/a] : The Rambler

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

[n/a] : The Tatler

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

[unknown] : [volumes by the British Essayists]

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

Aeschlyus [?] : Prometheus

'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in my pocket, that it might be at hand in case I should find a few spare minutes. In general, I managed to read a few pages while going to and from the workshop. This, however, was a somewhat difficult affair, as my path led me through some of the busiest streets and places in the city: and I hardly need say that these are not the most favourable localities for a thoughtful reader, especially if what he chooses to read demands any thing like close attention. It was while standing at a bookstall that I read with the most advantage. I took care to avail myself of this as often, and for as long a time as possible; and from these out-of-door libraries picked up a few - perhaps a good many - scraps of useful or amusing information.'

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

[n/a] : [morning newspaper]

'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, that I might have an opportunity of looking at the morning newspaper; and further, that I might have the comfort of sitting by a good fire... I felt a considerable degree of interest in regard to the course of public affairs, and therefore was the more anxious to see a newspaper everyday. I also hoped that some one of the numerous advertisements might be made available in the way of getting employment other than that of tailoring. In this hope I was disappointed; yet the time I thus spent was not quite thrown away, as I hereby contracted a habit of carefully reading advertisements, which I have found to be useful...[etc.]'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : The News

'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with myself in subscribing for a weekly newspaper. We would gladly have taken a daily journal, but our pockets would not allow of so costly an indulgence. The paper we took was called "The News". Its arrival was looked for with very considerable interest, so anxious were we to see some bulletin of the Great Napoleon respecting his military operations, with the other articles of foreign news, and the commentaries of the newspaper editor. The perusal of the paper, with the conversation ensuing thereon, made the day of its coming a "white day" in our estimation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : British Press

'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the "British Press", the "Morning Chronicle", and the "Statesman". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's "Political Register", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'

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

[n/a] : Morning Chronicle

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

[n/a] : The Statesman

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines. 'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'

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

[n/a] : Monthly Review

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Magazine

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

[n/a] : European Magazine

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

[n/a] : Monthly Magazine

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

[n/a] : Examiner

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

[n/a] : Black Dwarf

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

[unknown] : Letters on the Marriage State

'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels, and encouragements being based on upon the supposition of the reader's being a person of substance and education. the only publication I met with which at all came up to my wishes was one called "Letters on the Marriage State"; but even this bore only in a distant way upon the case in question.'

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

[unknown] : [History of the recent wars]

'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that I read Mr. Rogers's very beautiful poem called "Human Life" and also a history of the recent wars.'

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

[n/a] : London Magazine

'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his fine imaginative powers beyond "this visible diurnal sphere". By the way, I must observe a similar defect exists in Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination"; a poem which in every other respect gives me very great satisfaction. I also read some volumes of the "London Magazine", which I thought to be a very cleverly conducted publication.'

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

[n/a] : New Monthly Magazine

'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles in which I was especially pleased with the "Letters from Algiers", written by Mr. Thomas Campbell, the eminent poet'.

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

[n/a] : Anti-Jacobin Review

'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met with some views respecting the conduct of Judas Iscariot towards his Divine Master which to me were quite new. I, however, thought them both reasonable and probable. I also read Mr. O'Meara's "Voice from St Helena", Dr. Henderson's "Travels in Iceland", and Captain Parry's "Narrative" of his Arctic Voyage. I must here beg the reader to remember that henceforth when I say that I have read any book it will only mean that I gave it a hasty perusal, for I had no time for close reading.'

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?

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

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

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

[unknown] : The lives of the Stoics

?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no such thing as a free library then, so enough money was scraped up for a subscription one, the first volume borrowed being Dickens?s newly published "Bleak House".?

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

[unknown] : [unknown various titles]

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

[unknown] : [theological works]

?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and his other theological works, but they made not the least alterations in his religious opinions.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Bamford Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [works on travel and antiquities]

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book of my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

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

[n/a] : [penny bloods]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Life of General Washington

'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'

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

[unknown] : [various]

?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s "History of Europe" and Humboldt?s "Cosmos".?

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

[unknown] : [various]

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

[unknown] : [theological magazines]

?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found greatly helpful. Todd?s "Student?s Manual" and an odd volume on Channing?s works. The "Manual" was a handy little book, full of useful links and suggestions on reading, writing and study. Still more hopeful and inspiring was Channing. That such an author should be in my father?s possession in those days was in itself remarkable? This volume of Channing, which so profited and delighted me, contained essays on Milton, Napoleon and F?nelon. These I read with attention; more than once I read them ? that on Milton many times over. The style took my fancy. Compared, indeed, with the great masters of English prose, the critic would no doubt detect failings not a few in Channing. But I was not a critic; and the clear, easy, simple words, the rhythmic phrases, pleased my ear, while the sentiments always pure, generous, lofty ? impressed me heart and understanding.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [playbill]

'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along the way to read, admire and compare the playbills of the different theatres. One afternoon in the latter end of the month of October we were going home, when our attention was forcibly arrested by a bill of an unusually attracive character. It was a very large, very highly coloured and very profusely illustrated bill...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

[n/a] : [playbill]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tommy Davies Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

[n/a] : The Lounger

'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & Miss White and I began reading the diff't numbers of it of an evening.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Star, The

'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflecting on the Dean for refusing the cathedral for the music meeting intended lately, a copy of w'ch I took to shew Mrs M little thinking at the time that this paragraph, of w'ch the Dean seems determin'd to suppose me the author, wo'd occasion a break between us.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, the melancholic details of which we read in the next morning's newspapers.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Weekly Screamer]

'[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous and illogical leading article, when the paper was suddenly snatched from my hands by my landlady, who sternly asked me if I thought reading a newspaper on a Sunday morning was proper behaviour in the house of a God-fearing couple.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Life of Pope Sixtus V

'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this (who had before seldom evinced much taste for reading) I told him that as the book was borrow'd by Miss Poole he must get thro' it much faster than he did books in general, of w'ch a very few pages at a time... used to satisfy him. This book however, seem'd to catch his attention & he soon got through it, since w'ch time tho' he has never become a thorough reader, he has continued much more of one than he ever was before.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[unknown] : Life of Pope Sixtus V

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book

[unknown] : [various]

'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also for some time after dinner & supper, by w'ch means we each read about 2 hours or make everyday our young men likewise taking their books at the same time, ... except after supper on days when we had been visiting, or at the Concert, the talking over which afterwards generally furnish'd amusement for the remainder of the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] : Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secolo

'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book

[unknown] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Canti Carnascialeschi

'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [chronicle of conquest of the Morea]

'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] : [unknown]

'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[n/a] : Annual Register, The

'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

Felicia Browne [later Hemans] : Poems

Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscribed by Felicia Browne [...] Her juvenile productions, remarkable certainly for her age [14] [...] made a powerful impression on Shelley'.

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

[n/a] : New Testament

'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did it but agree with my head to apply'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book

[n/a] : Spectator, The

'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country unless the Church Establishment be annulled: after the lapse of 20 years the measure is going to be adopted. Then I read aloud a bit of the "Promessi Sposi", and afterwards the "Spectator", in which there is a deservedly high appreciation of Lowell's Poems'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Seraphime

'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [books on plants]

'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : Ancient Geography

'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : Vegetable World, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[unknown] : [on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists]

'I read about Fourier and Owen'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Le Figaro

[a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le Figaro. From then on Durrell became hooked on French Literature'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Serial / periodical

Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] : Death of a Hero

'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially "Death of a Hero") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide "to swim against the current".'

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

Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] : [poetry]

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

[unknown] : The Grave

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

[unknown] : The Minstrel

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

[n/a] : [daily newspapers]

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

[unknown] : [Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold]

'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the "Times" did it yesterday'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper

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

[unknown] : [Account of the Tailor Bird]

'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".'

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

[various English poets] : [poems]

'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with great attention the whole of the New Testament, Secker's lectures on the Catechism and several other books on the same important subjects.'

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

[n/a] : New Testament

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

'Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (health and circumstances permitting) to hear him. [Berry was a Methodist preacher from Bolton].

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Advertisement, Poster

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wrote this paragraph.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Morning Chronicle

'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "Morning Chronicle"'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Morning Chronicle

'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very justly bewails his death.' [NB Brougham had not in fact died]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'Noticed at dinner time the improper conduct of Mr Slyfield he having taken the paper and not reading aloud. I kindly requested him to read the city article and sat 1/4 of an hour thinking he would look at it in a while, he however continued reading to himself and deigned not to answer me or to comply with my request or to give up the paper but sat as if he were the only person who had a right to know any of its contents, and also as if he were a being superior to us.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Slyfield Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'The account of the money market rather more favourable.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [The Morning Chronicle?]

'Read the paper and smoked a pipe.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Encyclopedia Britanica

'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Gentleman's Magazine

'Brought back [from the subscription? library] the Gents Mag for Feby 4 March. They have not yet done with the controversy with respect to the commencement of the century. There is both letters and epigrams upon it in this no.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [The Sheffield Iris]

'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscription for which is one guinea.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very careful of what he says about the riots; a burnt child dreads the fire.' [Report on church charities noted from this issue of the 'Iris' appears on F 3 of the journal in the margin.]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [Greek or Great?] Testament

'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Jones Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about books?as I never read any Books, but men & Cards"?But let any Body read [ital] her [close ital] Book; & then tell me, if she did not draw Characters with as masterly a hand as Sr Joshua Reynolds. "Go thou and do likewise."'

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Churchill Print: Book

[unknown] : [old-fashioned theological works]

'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'

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

[unknown] : [early Methodist magazines]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [cookery books]

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

[unknown] : [tales of murder and robbery]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Unknown

[unknown] : History of England

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

[unknown] : Adam's First Wife

'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious one entitled "Adam's First Wife". This was a sort of history of the Garden of Eden which rather discounted the "rib theory" and raised some doubt in my mind as to Adam's innocence in the pre-apple days.' [continuation of discussion of Adam etc]

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

[n/a] : New Testament

'One wet Sunday morning we were all sitting round the table, reading in turn from the New Testament, this being my mother's substitute for Sunday school when she happened to be in a good temper.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Hannah Mitchell Print: Book

[unknown-probably various contributors] : [poems in newspaper]

'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant reading matter, so I said quickly: "Yes, we like it."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Newspaper

[uknown-ship's cook?] : [recipe]

'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our palates at least, and fully as green and pleasing to the eye as if it were bought fresh every morning at Covent Garden Market. Our steward has given me the receipt, which I shall copy exactly - false spelling excepted.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.

[unknown] : [poetry]

'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most of Sir Walter Scott's works along with a good deal of poetry and history, as well as a good deal of rubbish I daresay. But as I have forgotten it it did me no harm.'

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

[unknown] : [history]

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

[n/a] : Bible

'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.'

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

[n/a] : The Clarion

'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist weekly "The Clarion", I began to read it and became deeply interested in the theories put forward.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell]

'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." This document would hardly find favour with the advocates of Basic English - there are no stops or commas in it. It begins with "Greeting. Know ye that we have assigned you and every one of you jointly and severally Our Justices to keep the peace in and throughout our city of Manchester in our County Palatine of Lancaster and to keep and cause to be kept all Ordinaces and Statues made for the good of our peace and for the Conservation of the same." Then followed the instructions - "to chastise and punish all persons that offend against the form of these ordinaces. To cause to come before you or any of you all those who to anyone or more of Our People concerning their bodies or the firing of their houses have used threats to find sufficient security for the Peace if they shall refuse to find such Securtiy then them in our prisons until they shall find such security to cause to be safely kept." The scroll ends with the command - "that you diligently apply yourselves to the keeping Our Peace Ordinance Statutes and all and signular other the premises and perform and fulfil the same in form aforesaid being therein what to Justice appertaineth according to the Laws and Customs of England."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Manuscript: Sheet

[unknown] : [unknown]

Sunday, Feb 4 (1940) 'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading, writing, etc. Thank goodness snow seems to be thawing.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[unknown] : [life of Joan of Arc]

'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of that girl.'

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

[Thomas] [Moore] : [The Blue Stocking]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know why/ To sport an hour with Beauty's chain/ Then throw it idly be ... ' [total = 2 x 10 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[George Gordon, Lord] [Byron] : [Don Juan - Canto the Third]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time/ Is sharpen'ed from its high celestial flavour/ Down to a very homely household savour'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingilby "For reducing or repealing the malt tax' ...this was hailed throughout the country as something being done for the people...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Sheffield Iris

'Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the "Iris" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct of ministers.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arrival Indicator, woman says "Trains not a bit late yet, the organization's wonderful!" People generally not talking about the Coronation but about trains, food, drinks, relatives, etc.'

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

[n/a] : [advertisement]

'Advert. S. side of Euston Road reading "Morris Commercial Vehicles-a Body for every Trade" heavily draped with decorations. Diversion round Euston Square. Extraordinary diversion at Albany Street: "Straight on all colours" says notice on road going due North.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Advertisement, Poster

[n/a] : Daily Mirror

'Girl sitting on soiled newspaper is reading Daily Mirror. The caption reads "Three women wait 25 hours; lead line up for the big parade".'

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

[unknown] : [crime novel]

'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looking twins who are speaking a language like Danish and are learning English words from a Pitman's book.'

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

[unknown] : Pitman's book

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

[unknown] : [pamphlet]

'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chair reading aloud slowly from the leaflet I had been distributing: "Speed-up in Industry: 5 men now do the work that it took 6 men to do in 1932".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Observer a sweet but by mistake holds out bird's peanut tin.'

[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] : The grave of a poetess

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; [text] 'I stood beside thy lowly grave;/ Spring-odours breath'd around/ And music, in the river-wave/ pass'd with a lulling sound ...' [total = 13 x 4 lines verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]? : [Adieu]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisant pays de France/ O ma patrie/ La plus cherie/ Qui a nourri ma jeune enfance ......' [total = 13 x 4 lines verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Whereas Kay was always trying to read or knit when she sat down, Louise is doing nothing at all, and so can be quite undisturbed by the constant clawing of sticky hands round her knees.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kay

[unknown] : [English novel]

'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very much annoyed at hearing that the idea had been put forward in England, and said that it was a great mistake to give the enemy warning.'

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

[n/a] : [news running on electric signboard]

'The steps around Eros statue are filled with an excited crowd, coster's barrows stand around selling fruit, chocolate, etc. Hot chestnuts, roasted potatoes and peanuts are selling fast. It is 1 a.m. and most of the roadway is filled with people who read aloud the slowly spelled news reports on the running electric signboard over the end of Glasshouse Street.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: people gathered near the Eros statue Print: electric signboard with scrolling text

[unknown] : Low Company

'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread and Wine".'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and read until 12 o'clock.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was the name of a row of houses, Amble Tonia.'

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

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Reporter. On May 12 I slept till ten. From ten to eleven I read the paper with interest until I came to a half column of news giving the time schedule of the Queen's dressing arrangements on that morning.'

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

[n/a] : [newspaper?]

'On one of the side streets, a young couple parked their perambulator in the middle of the sidewalk and stopped to read the results of the Coronation procession in London.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: a young couple Print: Unknown, perhaps front page of newspaper displayed?

[n/a] : [tomb inscriptions]

'I walked through the park for a few minutes and not finding anything of interest to see or hear, I turned into a lane nearby that led to the cemetery. Here I read the inscriptions on several tombs and thought how different Italian burial places were. Night was approaching, I was chilly, I turned and walked home.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: epitaphs on tombs at cemetery

[unknown] : Poesie di Ossian

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e rotundo/ ...'; [total = 37 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Mary] [Tighe] : The old Maid's prayer to Diana

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars, my dear goddess decree/ That Old Maid as I am, an Old Maid I must be;/ O, hear the petition I offer to thee/ For to hear it must be my endeavour/ ...'; [total = 5 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Robert] [Pollock] : The Course of Time [extract]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast river of unfailing source/ Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his number flowed/ And op'ed new fountains in the human heart...'; [total = 86 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'My friend didn't want to shave, although he was no longer clean-shaven, so we had a brief wrangle about washing. Then he read to me out of the newspaper, still in his pyjamas, while I told him to get dressed.'

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

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'At 9.50 I went into the general office in order to await any cases of infectious diseases or nuisances which may arise during the day (inspector on duty) and chatted with the clerk on duty. He had a Coronation souvenir paper and read aloud the heading "Smiles that charm all subjects" and added in a disappointed tone "they have failed to charm me".'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.'

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

[n/a] : Light and Dark

'9.15-12.0. Dressed. Wrote a poem. Annoyed by patriotic and religious activities at Church opposite. Read a magazine, "Light and Dark", to which I had contributed. Began to rewrite a criticism of Edgar Poe.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coronation ceremony. When this had finished I read a book till seven o'clock when my father came home.'

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

[n/a] : [morning newspaper]

'Had extra hour in bed and read morning paper. Spent most of morning in garden making enclosure for tortoise as decide simple things are satisfying, but wireless sets are giving off loud cheers and wish secretly I was seeing procession.'

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

[n/a] : [newspaper]

' I laid in bed till 6.15 a.m. and got up, washed and shaved. I ate my breakfast and read the paper.'

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

[n/a] : Ayrshire Post

'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and "Ayrshire Post" (Report of Ayrshire Film Society, Dr. M'Rae's report of Glengall Mental Hospital, letter about- people-writer of letter doesn't like them- comments on Ayr's poor support of a resident repertory company "Pelican Players").'

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

[n/a] : Daily Worker

'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that have already been published, as every one has been written by people who had much better opportunities of seeing them, and more time to examine them than I have had. Indeed, a man need go no farther to study them than the China paper, the better sorts of which represent their persons, and such of their customs, dresses, etc., as I have seen, most strikingly like, though a little in the "caricatura" style. Indeed, some of the plants which are common to China and Java, as bamboo, are better figured there than in the best botanical authors that I have seen.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [news bulletin]

'"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somewhere that they're going to move London to Canada, and I can well believe it."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [information leaflets]

'Have not read the P.I.L., neither has anyone in the house or anyone else I know. Will be read only if war breaks out. They are being carefully kept.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an hour or more in a dark, gloomy carriage, so's you can't read; can't even look at the girls sitting opposite you; can't see your station. That's not going to keep us cheerful and "bring us victory," is it?'

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

[unknown] : [thrillers]

'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.'

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

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made a new car so's it's easier to drive, more profit for them isn't it, like Lord Nuffield. Wireless is all right though.'

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

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, they talk about what we should eat, why don't they see we get it. . . . Vitamins-bread and bloody jam is what we get. . . . They think about more ways of making bloody money for the capitalists. . . . It's all right if they'd keep men in their bloody jobs.'

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

[unknown] : [newspaper?]

'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, wars and all that, get sick of it. . . . Pictures you get used to, they're all the same. . . . You can get about easier. . . . I don't blame them as finds things out, it's them as is let use the things wot they find out. . . . I read a bit about that new car, don't know what it means though. They're always finding things out now. All right if we knew how to use them, first thing they do is to put men on the shelf before they're grown up. . . . Sometimes think if they had a rest from thinking how they can make more money out of us-that's what they do it for.'

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

[n/a] : People

'I read where there's going to be a war soon, it said so in the "People", they tell you what's going to be, there's more than something in it.'

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

[unknown] : [horoscopes]

'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthday they said I should get a surprise. I got one. It was a good 'un, mister. No, I'm not telling you what it was, that's my business.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'I read all the papers on it. I don't understand the politics of it, but they are all different. That's why people have less faith in the papers.'

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

[Walter] [Scott] : [The monastery]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come in storm and tempest, there are those/ whom it has summoned amid scenes of vanity/ there are those too who have heard "its still small voice"/ Amid rural leisure & placid contentment ?' [total = 10 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] : [Kindred hearts]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy below/ For are the hearts whence one same touch/ Bids the sweet fountains flow/ ?' [total = 16 lines but not a continuous extract]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : Matilde a novel

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ than the majority of her daughters. Like many of/ them she has not a single good feature in her face,/but unlike them she does not even do her best ??' [total = 18 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with those we love/ Like stars amid a stormy night/ Alas! how few they prove ?' [total = 2 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : A Highland Salute to the Queen

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! Ieroe!'; [Text] 'Long life to our Queen who in beauty advances/ To the refuge of freedom, the home of the fair/ Each true Highland bosom with loyalty dances/ From Drummond to Taymouth - from ? to Blair/ ...' [total = 5 x 10 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Long ago!

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words recall past years?/ And scarcely knowing why they flow/ Bring to the eye unbidden tears?/ ...' [total = 4 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Daily Herald

'I read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath if any wished to assist. It appealed to me immensely. I think it is true to say I am naturally observant. I had frequently noticed various things that passed other people's notice.'

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

[n/a] : News Chronicle

'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her day. Mass-Observation, it was something new, something to talk about; the things I do in the house are monotonous, but on the 12th, they are different somehow, letting the dog out, getting up, making the dinner, it makes them important when they have to be remembered and recorded.'

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

[n/a] : Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper

'When I read about Mass-Observation in "Reynolds", I wrote straight away to join in. In fact, if there was a joining-fee I would have joined just the same.'

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

[Anon] : The Star of Missions

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gladdening ray/ Which o'er the nations sheds a beam of day;/ While glad salvation speeds her life fraught ?/ Borne by the Gospel's herald wheels afar;/ ... " [Total = 7 x 6 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : unknown

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre vie? C'est notre caractere, c'est la/ maniere ? nous voyons les choses, /? " [Total = 17 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Innes[?] : Lines on Mountghaine [?]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text] "Hail beauteous spot of Nature's earth/ Arrayed in robes of richest dress/ In gorgeous splendour showing forth/ Preeminence in loveliness/... " [Total = 9 x 6 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Anon] : The dead friend

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul/ Descend to contemplate/ The form that once was dear!/ ?not on thoughts so loathly horrible/ ...'; [Total = 40 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles] : To one at rest

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And needest thou our prayers no more, Safe folded mid the blest/ How changed are thou since last we met, To keep the day of rest/ Young with the youth of angels; Wise with the growth of years/ For we have passed since thou has gone, A week of many tears/ ...24th Sept 1871'; [Total = 11 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[n/a] : New York Times

Letter 292 7 October 1940 Referring to the Blitz on London: 'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a night of respite yesterday ? let?s hope you have lots more.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : Royal Academy Catalogue

'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in the portrait of Mr Champley himself; and looked over the Royal Academy Catalogue and there found several of his productions enumerated; one I copied; this is it 235 Bridge of Sighs' [catalogue entry follows, approx 120 words].

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

[unknown] : [album]

'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called away, I noted the following excellent morsels of literature: "It is a good rule that our conversation should rather be of things than of persons: for thus obvious reason, that things have not a character to lose." "To take sunshine pleasure in the blessings and excellencies of others is a much surer mask of benevolence than pity their calamities".'

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

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'At this later place [Lincoln] we arrived at about 10 in the evening. Tea and bed were then in request, with a small portion of newspaper literature.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Newspaper

[unknown authors] : [various titles]

'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts as they suited, and took down titles of several to recommend them to other booksellers etc.'

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

[unknown] : [sermons]

'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon reading and prayers.'

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

[n/a] : Book of Job

'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33 Chap of job and the 15th and 16th verses In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed Then he openeth the ears of men and Sealeth their instruction.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of "Ten Thousand a Year". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but, having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without its being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [explanation of the principles of the Christian religion]

'Every Sunday after breakfast the Bishop of Norwich reads to their Royal Highnesses a practical explanation of the principles of the Christian religion'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Prince George Print: Book

[n/a] : Psalm

14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

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

[n/a] : [Sunday newspapers]

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

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

[n/a] : John Bull

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

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

[n/a] : Sports Illustrated

'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [magazines]

'I don't read books at all, chiefly magazines that I can pick up and put down without losing the thread of the story ...'

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

[unknown] : [thrillers]

'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but nothing else ... As I've tried to explain I can't find the time. When I've come home from work, helped the wife, and had a smoke, you look round, and it's time to go to bed.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Well, yes, but not good reading. I only read to pass the time away, - any old thing; any time when I happen to be stuck for an hour or so.'

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

[n/a] : News of the World

'Sunday evening is the only time I do read, - I spend over an hour reading the "News of the World".'

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

[n/a] : The Times

'I read the "Times", which takes a time, - I suppose about an hour a day.'

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

[n/a] : Telegraph

'I read the "Telegraph" reviews ... in trains and in the evening, lunch-time etc.'

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

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, as I'm a racing man.'

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

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'I spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours each day ... I expect I'm too tired of an evening to settle down to books, - I like the newspaper better, there's bite of everything in it.'

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

[n/a] : Woman

'I don't read newspapers, but I get the magazine "Woman", and I spend about 2 hours reading that.'

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

[n/a] : New Statesman

'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.'

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

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.'

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

[n/a] : [magazines]

'Three hours magazines, - scientific and travel'

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

[n/a] : [magazines]

'I read a lot of magazines ... They're bright and easy reading, and you can find out lots of useful things in them.'

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

[n/a] : The Engineer

'I read one magazine, the "Engineer", which I peruse at odd times over a week or so. It would take sometimes as much as five hours to read straight off. No one ever does though with that type of magazine.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'25 C was reading a book, waiting to be served, and reading with concentration, both elbows on table, head between hands. When served with pot of tea and a bun, continued to read, eating and drinking absently. At 5 o'c looked up, gazed round cafe for two minutes, lit a cigarette, asked for bill. Started to read again, but more casually, glancing round cafe from time to time. Left at 5.5. p.m'

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

[n/a] : Bow Bells

'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from school, happened to overtake her, she enlivened the rest of the journey with the synopsis of a serial she was reading, called "His Ice Queen"'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Serial / periodical

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

[n/a] : Jack O' London

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

[unknown] : [books]

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

[unknown] : [novels]

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

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

[n/a] : [periodical]

'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 18. They were talking and laughing excitedly. The elder one took a newspaper cutting from her hand and handed it to the younger, and they were quiet while she read it. At the next table sat a middle aged man reading a periodical, and next to him sat two girls who neither moved nor spoke to each other. The man who was reading took out a cigarette and lit it without taking his eyes off the paper.'

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

[n/a] : [newspaper cutting]

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunch. Continued this after lunch - this comes of refusing to write letters except on Sundays.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown - on Higher criticism]

'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) Christianity to a comprehensible, logical system of ethics, rather than trying to realize that wonderful communion with God which must always be its source of faith, hope, love, and strength. 'Religion would cease to be divine if it were capable of being compressed into the narrow limits of human comprehension; isn't that right? 'I am afraid I greatly prefer Dr Dale's book to Bishop Westcott's. It is so much easier to understand. Westcott is very well for Sundays, but rather exacting for a tired week-day brain! 'The Bishop has returned from the Seychelles and is acting as our chaplin. He is a peculiar man, but I believe he is a very good one. 'I am, your affectionate son. P.S. I find I have got a copy of Gore's Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, with your name in it. May I stick to it? I like it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Unknown, cuttings

[unknown] : [essay on rifling]

'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to say nothing of Napier's "Peninsular War", and a "Life of Napolean"![sic] So when my major made a surprise descent yesterday afternoon from Curepipe, he found me immersed in an essay on Rifling, and was rather pleased!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey Print: Book

[unknown] : The adventures of a louse

'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon. I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was "The Sorrows of Werter". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him? He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love. I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but "The Sorrows of Werter"? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got "The Adventures of a Louse", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides "The Recess", and "Valentine and Orson", and "Roslin Castle", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked "The Adventures of a Louse" the best of any of them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

[unknown] : Roslin Castle

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

[unknown] : [book of prayers]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons Print: Book

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the leader writers in the press, I read them, Garvin and all, for they make light reading and are often entertaining, sometimes even instructive.'

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

[n/a] : [Left-wing newspapers]

'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers sometimes, and trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff.'

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

[n/a] : Manchester Guardian

'"Manchester Guardian". English news once a day. Lord Haw-Haw, conversations with as may people as possible, reading on international questions. From these sources I sort out things as well as I can.'

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

[n/a] : [Newspaper]

'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and triplicate to accomodate the crowds." After all they said about running no extra trains at Christmas! My god! England is the place to live in.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, we sat down for a modest and simple meal of a little bit of cold meat, some lettuce and cheese, and spent the rest of the evening peacefully around the fire, reading, and talking about nothing in particular."

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

[unknown] : Arise to conquer

'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with the fighting and can come forward to do some of the thinking, shaping and building again, will they then be able (or willing) to contemplate more than the conquest of Jean.'

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

[n/a] : [Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death]

'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fighting for, if that's the way the Anti-Fascists behave. I was just reading in the paper that they hung them up in the most lewd, indecent positions, and spat at them, and threw stones. And laughed. The Italian people don't seem to feel any horror at this either. I think it's just too ghastly for words.'

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

[n/a] : [Daily Worker: Article on Mussolini's death]

'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain spattered out, and he looked awful, but his mistress was hanged beside him in a new white blouse and looked lovely.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had not long finished dinner, the table was still set, my father was reading in the armchair, my stepmother was busy about the house, I was in the garden, mending a puncture on my bicycle. The end of the programmes came to an end on the wireless, the announcer gave the news that tomorrow, Tuesday, May the 8th, would be V-Day, and the day following a holiday. Quietly, my father said, "It's over."'

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

[unknown] : [works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]

'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than to anxiety or worry. I do not consciously worry about the eventuality of war, but I do feel very deeply concerned about the suffering which has already been caused.'

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

[unknown] : [a thriller]

'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thriller along such lines and had partaken of a somewhat heavy supper).'

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

[unknown] : [books]

'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read in them from the point of view of their opinions on the war, and what shall be done after it. I get far more satisfaction from reading articles or books by authors such as C.E.M. Joad, H.G.Wells and Huxley.'

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

[n/a] : [daily newspapers]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[Thomas] [Moore?] : 'When Love was a Child' OR ['Loves Wreath']

'Love's Wreath!' 'When Love was a Child and went rolling along/...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

[P.D.] [Stanhope] : Advice to a Lady in Autumn

'The dews of the evening most carefully shun Being tears of the sky for the loss of the sun! Chesterfield'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Gentleman's Magazine

'Brought the "Gents Mag" for May. It contains an advertisement for a new edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" with supplemental plates at 15/15'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : 'Printed Description' accompanying a comemorative medal

'Mr Scholfield gave me a medal struck to commemorate the presentation of the colours to the Birmingham association of cavalry & infantry. On one side is "Public virtue seated on ..." [in margin] "From the printed description which accompanies it".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Handbill

[n/a] : [The Annual] Register

'Wrote out of the Register's "Mary Queen of Scotts a Monody; Written near the Ruins of Sheffield Manor". It is one of the pretttiest pieces of poetry in the Registers. It was published by Peacock in his poems, but it was not of his composition.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Monthly Magazine

'On 25.7.1799, I have seen a month or two ago, in the "Mon Mag" an account of the publication of the first part of the 1st vol [of the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Monthly Review

'Brought the "Monthly Review" from Miss Haynes; this month they review Conder's "Arrangement of Provincial Coins", but they do it in a very slight manner.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Analytical Review

'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to read a masterly critique on the "Castle Spectre", which I saw performed last winter; they allow Mr Lewis no praise at all, indeed plagiarisms (chiefly from Mrs Radcliffe's Publications) are visible on every page.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Monthly Magazine

'Brought the "Mon Mag" from Miss Haynes. It contains an account of the death of Dr Towers.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : The Gentleman's Magazine

'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & c.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Iris

'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state of London; he says there are no less than 200, 000 persons, who when they get up in the morning do not know where they shall lay their head at night. That very miserable story, which I have cut out of an old "Iris" & is amongst the rest of the newspaper scraps, & entitled "On the Police of Paris" Mr Col[...] says was related to him by a Foreign Ambassador, who was at Paris at the time.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Iris

'Dr Marwick advertises again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Monthly Review

'It was when I was very ill that the article in the "Monthly Rev." was read to me.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Iris

'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Strictures of Female Education"...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Monthly Review

'From paper in "Monthly Review" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing former reasonings [...] found much enjoyment in it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Adventurer

'In the [?] read principally the papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formally, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after beginning "Spanish Grammar".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Gazette

'"Gazette" with details of victory over Dupont, +c'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'Breakfasted below. Read "Edinburgh Review" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, viz Plut. "Phocian"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Spanish Grammar

'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasure of Memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formally, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after beginning "Spanish Grammar".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Unknown

[unknown] : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

'Looked into "Philosophical Transactions" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon paper, page 663, i think vol.V or VI. among papers miscellaneous or omitted, where there were some calculations respecting probability'

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

[n/a] : Gazette

'Day of "Gazette" arriving, with news of Wellesley's victory [Battle of Talavera] of 28th July.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Athenaum

Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chatting meanwhile. There was something unusual in his manner,something softer than usual in his tone and eye, but I not what it proceeded from, and chattted gaily, leading the conversation - on Goethe, on women's dresses'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Robinson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : New Monthly Magazine

[Transcript of essay, under the heading 'Today'] 'Today. New Monthly Magazine for January 1823'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Holte Bracebridge Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Antiquarian Repertory [Vol II of 4 vols]

[3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it I wished to draw. [4 July 1797] I drew out of the "Antiquarian Repertory" a view of Little Saxham Church.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book

[n/a] : Fraser's Magazine For Town and Country

'1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Beanlands Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Harvey Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Harvey Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Cassell's National Library (first 23 vols)

Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of good even in my own neighbourhood, for several of my own friends have given up drinking for the sake of taking and reading your beautiful little books".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: several Lancashire workman Print: Book

[unknown] : The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest relig

BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when read to. Earliest date 5th August 1871 lesson 1, Lesson 19 21 Aug 1871 lesson 29 by 26 Sept 1871, Lesson 1 'The Body' prayer to prevent body from getting hurt also dated 6 May 1872, 14 Sept 1878 lesson VI 'Of the Wicked Angels' dated 3 Jan 1879

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Victoria of Prussia Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament, and that with active attention, as she frequently made any thing which had struck her in reading it, the subject of remark when she came down'

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

[n/a] : The Rambler

'We might mention the Rambler, theGuardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved....

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Guardian

'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved....'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased

The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the death of Mr Garrick. A Ballad. Subject Love [underlined] for the Bath Easton Villa. Louisa a tale. Envy: a fragment. On the New Year. 'Essays. On Sensibility. On the Character of Latitia. On Politeness. On the Character of Casio. On Candour. '2nd Vol. Third Edition. On Fortitude. On the Advantages of Application [?]. On the Pleasures of Religion. On Gratitude. On Happiness. On Christian Perfection. On Resignation.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension will rarely be sought...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : A Letter to Earl Stanhope

content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader had read the letter)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton

[unknown] : Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great

Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too enterprizing, presuming too much upon his own opinions... I know also that he has no malignity in his heart, that he is indefatigable in business... I find no-one so capable as he is of consoling me... That he may daily unify his heart and his manners.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton Print: Book

[n/a] : The Christian World

'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained nothing but accounts of meetings and conferences, announcements of appointments to ministries, and obituary notices; yet I read them from beginning to end.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [volume about theological debate]

'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant divine and a Roman Catholic priest some time about the middle of last century, with a long argument on transubstantiation and many references to the Douai Bible which greatly puzzled me, for I did not know what the Douai Bible was.'

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

[unknown] : [school books]

''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at that time called "Sunday Stories". I read novels illustrating the dangers of intemperance and the values of thrift. I read a new periodical called "The Penny Magazine" which my brother Willie got: it was modelled on "Tit-bits", and contained all sorts of useless information. But I had no children's books and no fairy-tales: my father's witch stories made up for that.'

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

[n/a] : The People's Journal

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The People's Friend

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Christian Herald

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Sunday Stories

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [novels]

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

[n/a] : The Penny Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [story]

'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrived at a cottage carrying a heavy sack, which he left in a corner while he went, as he said, to the barn to get some sleep. The woman of the house, who lived by herself, happened to touch the sack, felt it moving, and knew at once that there was a man in it who had come to murder her... When I read "Treasure Island" a few years later the horrible figure of the blind seaman Pew brought back again the terrors of that dream.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Unknown

[n/a] : The Police News

'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Sutherland sometimes had sent to him by a cousin in Leith a weekly paper called, I think, "The Police News", a record of brutal crimes. He left it lying in the kitchen one day, and with my usual hypnotised interest I went across to take it up. On the cover was a picture of a powerful man standing in his shirt sleeves with an axe raised above his head... My father snatched up the paper as soon as I put my hand out for it, crammed it into his pocket, and said sternly, "That's no for thee!"'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Boy's Own Paper

'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of "The Boy's Own Paper", which I did not see until years later, when it bored me with its stories of public-school life, filled with incomprehensible snobbery. The line of "Chums" was adventure stories in savage lands.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Chums

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [School history book]

'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were "as silent as the dead". I had had, of course, to learn "Casabianca" and "Lord Ullin's Daughter" and "Excelsior" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.'

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

[unknown] : [book on Wallace and Bruce]

'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but I found it was a shilling and threepence and I had to return dejectedly with a book on Wallace and Bruce instead. It was not a good book, and all I remember of it is a few lines quoted from Burns...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book

[unknown] : [story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands]

'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by "The Orkney Herald". It was an account of the origin of the Orkney and Shetland Islands...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical, almanac

[n/a] : The Bible

'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'

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

[unknown] : Bronco Bill

'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwood Dick" -a cowboy who was always bumping off people in Deadman's Gulch or Gallow's Ravine, The reformers told me that my mind would become brutalised by reading Penny Dreadfuls... Besides "Deadwood Dick" in the shop window there was "Bronco Bill", with stories of a similar type. And there was "Jack Wright".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Jack Wright

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : History of the World War

'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the shop. The time was late afternoon, just before tea, and I was standing near the window, looking through one of the volumes of a garish and expensive "History of the World War" which my father had bought from a door-to-door salesman who had persuaded him that "it would be very useful for the little boy's education". Some illustration in the book -a photograph or drawing of a battleship or aeroplane or shell-burst or trench warfare - must have caught my fancy, and, as I noticed that John Slater was looking out from his window on the opposite side of the street, I held up my picture against the glass so that he might see it. The street was narrow enough for anyone with good eyesight even to read the caption if it were printed in large enough letters. John nodded and promptly held up a picture in a book he was reading. I turned over a page or two and then held up another picture. John responded. And soon we found ourselves caught up in a competition...'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

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

[n/a] : The Sketch

'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the Public Library, did not immediately strike me as being what might lie beneath a gymslip.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Tatler

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Woman's Weekly

'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "Love" was something I had learned about from "David Copperfield" and "Under the Greenwood Tree" and from the stories in "The Woman's Weekly", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. "Come into the garden, Maud" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [detective stories]

'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'

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

[n/a] : Daily Mail

'[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic strip. "That jackass", my father would umph, half-teasingly, as he read the latest outrageous saying in the "Daily Mail".'

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

[n/a] : The Encyclopedia Britannica

'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and dusty from the half-mouldering, out-of-date sets of "The Encyclopedia Britannica" and the "Dictionary of National Biography". We took down pages and pages of what, in the end, proved to be quite useless notes on the lives of Gustavus Adolphus and Richelieu...'

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

[n/a] : Dictionary of National Biography

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

[n/a] : The Golden Treasury

'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mortality" and the first book of "The Golden Treasury", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'

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

[unknown] : [books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]

'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'

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

[n/a] : The Bible

'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. It was always safe to leave me with this Bible lying on my belly on the hearthrug before the fire -while my mother went out somewhere with my sisters. They would find me even three hours later just where and as I had been left. That Bible with its illustrations by Gustave Dore and Felix Philipotteaux, was a joy and a solace for years. Especially the battle-pictures and those of storm and wreck. There was one of Joshua's army storming a hill fortress -with the great iron-studded door crashing down before the onrush of mighty men with huge-headed axes -that never failed to thrill...'

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

[n/a] : Cassells Illustrated History of England

'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of England, which my father got bound up from a set of weekly parts. They carried the story down to the accession of George III; but even so they were a mine of treasure it took years to ramsack. I read first all the battles... After the battles I read the murders; then the executions; and then, at last, as much as I could stomach of the connecting bits in between.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes

[n/a] : Girls' Own Paper

'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Chips

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

[n/a] : Comic Cuts

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

[n/a] : Lot o' Fun

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

[n/a] : Butterfly

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

[n/a] : [comic paper]

'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie and Tired Tim, or Dreamy Daniel, or Casey Court, or the Mulberry Flatites, I found that the captions under suddenly began to read themselves out to me.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

[Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got when I actually read the thing, right through, cover to cover, as if it was "Chips" or "Herewald the Wake"... Here on a wet Sunday morning was this handsome volume, leather-bound, of clear bold type and frequent illustrations -I'd look at the pictures. They were gawdy and full of action, quite a lot of them. Look at the priests of Dagon with their blood-splashed knives; Jael creeping into the tent of Sisera; Egyptian chariots overwhelmed by the Red Sea; Judas gloating over his pieces of silver like a carroty-headed Quilp...You simply had to read of these matters; and if the narrative didn't always come up to the quality of the illustrations, when it did you had a story which stayed in your imangination and gave it something to glow with. I read on, session after session, past all the boring bits and finished it at last.'

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

[n/a] : Holy Scriptures

'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte", "shiftless rabble", "dregs of humanity", "ignorant masses". I wondered where all these worthless people lived. I could only think it must be London or some such place outside my ken. Then one day it dawned on me, these scornful and superior writers were writing about me, and the people who lived in our street. It knocked me sideways for a little time, till the temperament I had inherited from my mother pulled me straight again... The latest I have come across is Richard Church, for whom, as a poet and novelist, I have full respect...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : Penny Dreadfuls

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : How to make friends and influence people

'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Friends and Influence People". I read the book, but it did me no good; so I must be a hopeless case.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]

'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'

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

[unknown] : Pneumatics

'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'

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

[n/a] : The Family Storyteller

'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My father got her "East Lynne" through a pub Literary Society, she read it over and over again. I read it when I was about nine. Heavens, the tears I gulped back over the death of Little Willie!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [notice]

'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual labour then. The auctioneer's man had taken the two halves of the sash window out. On the wall by the window was written in chalk: "Owing to Arrears of Rent and by Order of the Landlord. Sale this day at 2.30".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Manuscript: Graffito

[n/a] : Bible

'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read it, too, when I learned to read; it is a bit old fashioned but very interesting when you get used to its archaic English. In the forty-first chapter of Genesis another Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream...'

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

[unknown] : [notice]

'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I could read enough. It said "Haircut: Men 3d., Boys 2d., Shaving, 1d." That was in 1893, near enough. Prices have gone up a little since then.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Advertisement, Poster

[n/a] : Police News

'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in depicting crime in pictures, and also the manly arts of boxing and wrestling. The most sensational crime of the previous week was always given on the front page; and if it was murder by knife or gunshot, there was always oceans of blood sloshed about the picture, and the dying man's face was horrific with his agony. These journals were printed on pink newsprint.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Police Budget

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Sketchy Bits

'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute minimum of clothing... These two "Bits" journals - that I sometimes bought for a halfpenny each at the second-hand periodical stall in the market -catered to some extent to masochists. There were pages of letters supposed to be written by readers to the editor -though it would not surprise me if they had all been written by the same journalist -that I did not quite understand as a boy. I read everything I came across, from the Bible to "Deadwood Dick", so I read these letters also.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Photo Bits

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Heartsease Library

'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a novelette; the "Heartsease Library" was one, a penny per week. She was in the public library, too. I read "The Channings" by Mrs Henry Wood, and "Lady Audley's Secret" by Miss Braddon, and others by these two who were my mother's favourite authors.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Heartsease Library

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Sylvestre Sound

'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymns, usually a couple of singers who gave "sacred" songs; and to which was attached a Book Club. By paying a few pence a week Father got all the books he could read; he was a slow reader, too. He got "Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist", "Sylvestre Sound", "Somnambulist"; "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and many others. Dolly has some of them at this date, sixty years later.'

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

[unknown] : Somnambulist

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves and found just the book I wanted: a scientific work that gave full details of African trees. I sat studying it and making notes...'

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

[unknown] : Young People's First Book of Trees

'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came through the room I slipped the African book on to my knees under the table and was intently studying the Young People's book...'

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

[n/a] : The Racing Specialist

'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: iron moulders Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Football Edition

'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: iron moulders Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Strand Magazine

'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room when displaced by a new monthly issue: the "Strand Magazine", "Windsor", "Pearson's", and others...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Windsor

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Pearson's

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished'

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

[unknown] : [book on pneumatics]

'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would succeed, and I have great doubts of my ever attempting it'

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

[unknown] : History of Rome

'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.'

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

[n/a] : Monthly Review

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

[anon] : Guy's Expositor

'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand bookstall in the market. ...he handed me a book that was dropping to pieces. It was thin, with a dark green back. There were about fifty pages; there had been a lot more but the others must have dropped out. All the pages were loose. It was called "Guy's Expositor". It was just lists of words, but it told you where they had come from, and how their meaning had varied through the ages so that some words, eventually, came to mean just the opposite from what they had meant long ago. I was thrilled to the marrow with it...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[n/a] : [Penny Poets]

'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a poet myself...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : Quain's Anatomy

'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" in two volumes. The first volume was anatomy and physiology. I read all about bones, muscles, lungs, liver, kidneys, ductless glands, all the whole issue. The second volume was on reproduction and embryology. I was completely fascinated...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [Astronomy and spectrum analysis]

'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One book I got was on spectrum analysis, as applied to astronomy. I was fascinated by this too. I could not put the book down. One evening Mother had not a penny for the gas, and there was no paraffin in the lamp she still had. I crouched on the fender, reading by the red glow of the fire, so close that my hair was singed.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[unknown] : [Astronomy and spectrum analysis]

'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks we had were box-type, there was a lid to lift and you could keep books inside. I had my book in there. We were doing composition. I had my head under the lid and inside the desk, reading more of the library book.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

'reading "Cornhill Magazine" &c'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Commenced work again to day in earnest - read some of the [following page missing]'

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

[unknown] : [playbill]

'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted mayde".'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Spanish books]

'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Navy precedents

'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618]

'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comissioners of the Navy who begun to act in the year 1618 and continued six years; wherein is fine observations and precedents, out of which I do purpose to make a good collection.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'

Unknown

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

[n/a] : Kingdom Intelligence

'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the other day the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the churches of the whole kingdom conforms.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of quality

'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be writ by a person of Quality concerning English Gentry to be preferred before Titular honours; but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that I ever saw in all my life, that from beginning to end you meet not with one entire and regular sentence.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Statute book]

'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerned.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Up and to read a little;'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Samuel] [Newman] : A concordance to the Holy Scriptures

'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogether as copious as that and something larger, though the order in some respects not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when it is only put in another place.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little pains in it.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on timber measuring and tides]

'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes, and encreased them by a vow against all strong drink till November next, of any sort of Quantity... Then I fell to read over a silly play, writ by a person of Honour (which is, I find, as much to say a coxcombe) called "Love a la mode".'

Unknown

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

[Thomas] [Southland] : Love a la mode

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[unknown] : [vowes]

'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So to bed.'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Print: Book

[n/a] : [Greek Bible]

'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings with fine cuts, and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes and arrows, of which he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown - recipes]

'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge and I carried them on board the King's pleasure-boat - all the way reading in a book of Receipts of making fine meats and sweetmeats; among others, one "To make my own sweet water" - which made us good sport.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Robert] [Wild] : Iter boreale

'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty well but not so as it was cried up.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Robert] [L'Estrange] : The Intelligencer

'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink but a simple beginning.'

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

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'

Unknown

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

[n/a] : Bible

'After a good supper with my wife, and hearing on the maids read in the Bible, we to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: maids of Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Arithmetic books]

'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Dick Turpin

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Spring-heeled Jack

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Claude Duval

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Edith the Captive

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Edith Heron

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Boys of England

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Pink 'Un

'I remember being called to Cambridge to act as a judge at an exhibition of basket-work at the local institute. My office concluded, I strolled about, admiring the beauty of the architecture of the colleges and the charm of the riverside. Passing by the back of King's College, I caught site of a punt lying along the river bank wherein lounged two reading undergraduates. Now, thought I, will be evident the ennobling standard of reading which public school and university teaching develop in the upper classes. I drew near and looked. They were reading the "Pink 'Un"!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: university undergraduates Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [books about the Navy]

'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cookes by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that now is; wherein the order that was observed in the Navy then, above what it is now, is very observable, and fine things we did observe in our reading.'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : [plays]

'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book

[Captain] [Fisher?] : [papers]

'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain Fisher's ship, which we hire to carry goods to Tanger - all the way coming and going, I reading and discoursing over some papers of his'

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

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

[unknown] : L'Ami des Enfants

'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Serial / periodical

Moliere [pseud.] : Les Femmes Savantes

'[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. I thought I should die from laughing in hearing the latter piece which is as amusing as it is possible to be. [Eugenia Wynne] Mr de Regis read to us and made all the possible faces for Mascarille. I find that France has made a great loss when Moliere died. It is said that he died during an acting of "Le Malade Imaginaire", one of his own pieces for in straining to make himself appear the more natural he burst a vein in his chest and died a few hours after. It is wearying that such a superior talent as that which was possessed by Moliere should not be immortal. Excellent author! better poet! Who has more glorified the amiable Thalia? What more can one desire?'.

[n/a] : Bible

'The first business of the morning being over [rolling up hammocks], the men break into groups or read. Many a one, to our astonishment, took his Bible and began reading it with no little earnestness.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners on board the 'Defence' hulk Print: Book

[n/a] : Home Friend - a weekly miscellany

'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies"; another the "Home Friend - a weekly miscellany"; a third, the "Saturday Magazine"; a fourth, the "History of Redemption"; and a fifth, the "Family Quarrel - an humble story".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Saturday Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Coldbath Fields Print: Book

[unknown] : [Religious Tracts]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Coldbath Fields Print: Book

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Navy List

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : University Registers

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : University Year Books

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermons]

'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons, Bampton and Gifford lectures, lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy, and also speeches by the acknowledged masters of oratory... For what? Nothing!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : Bampton lectures

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : Gifford lectures

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [speeches]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

Jane Austen [?] : [unknown]

'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [Henry VIII]

'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed it very much and, if I had another similar book, he would like to read it. As he did not strike me as being the type of man to take so keen an interest in history as his praise of the book seemed to imply, I asked him what aspects of Henry the Eight had aroused his interest. He replied that it was Henry's penchant for women that had intrigued him. Only he didn't put it quite like that. What he really said was something like this: "Gor blimey! Wasn't 'e a b- (son of a bachelor) for wimmin! Tork abaht us blokes bein' 'at stuff, why the b- had a bleedin' 'Arem! Them kings, and blokes like 'im, were the dirtiest lot of b-'s I've ever read abaht. Tork abaht Marie Monk! Why there ain't a bloke in this nick, or Dartmoor, or Pankhurst, as is a quarter as bad as these blokes yer reads abaht in 'istory!"'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate sewing or knitting. I joined the public library and so got plenty of good literature.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown - various titles]

'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [lives of the Fathers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [biographies of Christ]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [biographies of St Paul]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [studies on the Apostles]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown - various titles]

Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue; but I covered a fairly wide range in drama, fiction, poetry, biography, history, science, philosophy, theology, besides miscellaneous reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek Philosophy]

'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book

[n/a] : United Irishman

'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. The sixteenth and the last [italics] number. Read all the articles. Good Martin! Brave Reilly! but you will be swallowed, my fine fellows. "Government" has adopted the vigorous policy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Morning Post

Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June: 'Our second lieutenant instantly boarded her as officer on guard, and brought back two or three papers; and as I had seen none later than the 26th of May, I was glad to get a glance even at the "Morning Post". The leading article is about "the convict Mitchel", who is pronounced by that authority to be not only a convict but a scoundrel...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [Abyssinia]

'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with some Portuguese missionary, and the remainder of it with Salt, or somebody else: you are never sure of your travelling companion.'

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

[n/a] : [London newspaper]

'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown from the door of my cell, and lighted at my feet. Picking up the object, I found it to be a London paper. The Halifax mail has arrived - I long for the hour when my cell is to be locked, and carefully hide my treasure till then. At last the chief mate has locked and bolted me up for the night. I light a candle, and with shaking hands spread forth my paper. Smith O'Brien has been found guilty, and sentenced to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and hanged. The other trials pending.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Freeman's Journal

'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indicium. The "Freeman's Journal", one number of which I have seen, ventures as a piece of incredible daring, to print some words used by Whiteside in his speech for the prisoners - words deprecatory of the packing of juries, or something of that sort. The editor ventures no remarks of his own, and carefully quotes Whiteside's words as "used by counsel".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[George] [Allan?] : [biography of Walter Scott]

'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, wherein the said advocate takes superior ground, looking down, as it were, ex cathedra, upon his subject, searching out the genesis, and tracing the development of this or the other power or faculty in that popular writer; and thus by philosophic histoire raisonnee, informing us how it fell out, to the best of his, the advocate's, knowledge that Walter Scott came to write the books he did, and at the times of his life, after the fashion he did... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid;...'

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

Dr Memes [pseud?] : [Life of William Cowper]

'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, ... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid; yet it is far excelled in both these respects by another I am reading now, a life of Cowper, by Dr Memes (bookseller's hack literator of that name). Not that the writer is without genius; for he has succeeded in making a book as repulsive as it is possible for a book giving anything like a narrative of Cowper's life to be.'

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

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the "Blackwood's" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'

[unknown] : Quarterly Review

'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously, in American Art, and "Progress", and so forth - but is mainly solicitous that the Americans should - for their own sake, fo course - stay at peace. "For", says the generous reviewer, "As the future of America, to be a glorious future, must be a future of peace, so we would hope that it may be fruitful in all which embellishes and occupies and glorifies peace." - Most balmy language!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

[Duffy] : Nation

'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter loathing" of those who will say now that Ireland can win her rights by force. I thought so. The "Times" praises the new "Nation", and calls its first article "a symptom of returning sense in Ireland".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : The Times

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[Barry] : Southern Reporter

'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels with Mr Duffy for keeping the independence of Ireland before men's eyes even as an ultimate and far-distant object; he is for "putting it in abeyance", that is, dropping it altogether... These poor creatures will soon have few readers among the country people.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Commercial Advertiser

'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation thereupon, formed part of the business of the [Anti-Convict] Association at its last meeting.' [copy of letters]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, and MacManus, in the "Swift", and Martin and O'Doherty in the "Elphinstone", all arrived at Hobart Town about the same time - that they have been allowed to live at large, but each within a limited district, [italics] and no two of them nearer than thirty or forty miles [close italics].'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times [and other English newspapers]

'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - not to speak of the savage inhumanity of refusing victuals to the public services and to the poor sea-beaten convicts... I can find in these papers hardly anything relating to Ireland...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South African press...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate territory, about twelve miles in length... By the advertisements I see there at present no fewer than five ships at present laid on for California from the two ports, Hobart Town, south, and Launceston, north. There is now a brisk trade between Van Diemen's Land and San Francisco...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [Irish newspapers]

'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with many wry faces, and sometimes tells me part of the news.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Martin Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Colonial Times

'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "Colonial Times", a well-conducted Hobart Town paper, which warmly urged that meetings should be held, and petitions adopted by all the colonists, both of Van Diemen's Land and Australia, praying for the "pardon" of all those gentlemen known as the "Irish State Prisoners". When I saw the article this morning, I immediately wrote a short letter to the "Times", commencing thus - I suppose - it will be accounted another act of "contempt"...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the "Government" for their indulgence and clemency to the Irish prisoners. Now, the truth is, the exceptions which are made in our case to the ordinary treatment of real convicts, are all exceptions against [italics] us.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [trial of Governor Wale]

'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he is condemned to be hanged for flogging a man to death when Governor of the Island of Goree about 20 years ago. He seems to deserve his fate but it is a horrible thing for his wife and family'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Betsey and Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

[possibly] Eusebius : [possibly] The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

'Spent a very agreeable day at home; had a delightful lesson of Cramer; wrote a long letter to Angelo, and amused myself in reading the "History of the Church". Was particularly struck with the character of Pulcheria Theodosius's sister'.

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

[unknown] : Sermons

'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suffering for a time'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible

'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed reading the bible' [according to Harriet Wynne]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Justina Wynne Print: Book

[n/a] : [Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books]

Sunday 18 October: 'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was bibles and prayer books and hyme books so it was opened and we had the books it begins at 11 Oclock i think of you when 2 Oclock comes, and them we go to Dinner and spend the rest of the day how we can reading and singing'

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

[n/a] : [funeral service]

Monday 26 October 'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't care how soon, we get ther A child died today it is a verry serrous thing they sowe the body up in a rug then they get a plank and let the body go down the shool master Reed the furnell sevice'

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

[unknown] : Death Notch the Avenging Rancher

Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging Rancher" Made very little headway.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Newton Barton Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [Bulletin]

13 Mar 'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the accordeon. Luce is reading a bulletin 2 years old. Nosey is at the wheel and the others are on deck.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Luce

[n/a] : Gibraltar Chronicle

'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to do with such a shocking murder'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Bible

'Then I became seized with a desire to know something about religion, and I read the commandments over and over again, as well as those portions of the Bible which I could understand. I was particularly struck with the words: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work", etc. "It is not right for me to work on Sundays," I said to myself, and communicated my impression to the supervisor.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Jeffrey Print: Book

[unknown] : [pestilent literature of rascaldom]

'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of rascaldom which has educated so many criminal characters in this country; then graduated in the "School", and ultimately became a noted burglar. His reading in prison had been pretty extensive, while his intelligence would have insured him a position in society above that of a labouring man... I could not help looking upon it as a very novel experience, for even this grotesque world, to have to listen to a man who could delight in a literary discussion, quote all the choice parts of Pope's "Illiad", and boast of having read Pascal and Lafontaine in the original, maintain, in sober argument, that "thieving was an honourable pursuit", and that religion, law, patriotism and bodily disease were the real and only enemies of humanity.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Moliere [pseud.] : [Comedies]

'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these thirty years - at least, that I know of. Eben. Cruickshanks, mine host of The Seven Golden Candlesticks, and Mr. Gifted Gilfillan, are described in the spirit of Smollett or Cervantes. Who does not shed a tear for the ardent Vich Ian Vohr, and the unshaken Evan Dhu, when perishing amid the shouts of an English mob, they refuse to swerve from their principles? And who will refuse to pity the marble Callum Beg, when, hushed in the strife of death, he finishes his earthly career on Clifton Moor, far from the blue mountains of the North, without one friend to close his eyes? 'Tis an admirable performance. Is Scott still the reputed author?' Editor's addition: [In this letter Carlyle mentions reading Euler's ?Algebra,?1 Addison's ?Freeholder,?2 Cuvier's ?Theory of the Earth,?3 Moli?re's ?Comedies,? the monthly reviews, critical journals, etc.]

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

Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?] : review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilites

'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on Hume's doctrine - "The Christian Instructor" attacks him with considerable asperity - and, I think, success. Hume's essays, I have not read - and therefore cannot condemn - The evidence of testimony, too, no doubt has its limits - But as far as I can judge, all that is urged either by La Place or His reviewer - does not at all affect Christianity.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown novel]

[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you will not wonder that I took up the first book that came in my way - and tho' it was the dullest of all dull books, yet by a fatality attendant on those things, I could not give it up. It purported to be a "history of a lover" - showing how Cecilia (somebody) being poor but honest went to Paris, with some Brandy Irish Dowager (of Tipperary) and was much astounded at their goings on - yet very much liked by the beaux. Shewing how after divers trials and temptations she married with a lord (something) who had been a very great rascal in his early days but was now become a most delectable personage; how the[y] lived in great harmony of souls till the honest man one day riding on som[e] wold and happening to fall from his beast in the presence of this notable lady, she fell into hystericks or convulsions and was taken home in a wo[e]ful plight - where she loitered on till she was "brought to bed", when she took her leave of the good man and all the world - Would you believe me, I read & read this horrid story & might have been reading yet had not a most dolorous ode to Matrimonial - no "Monody on the Death of a beloved" &c compelled me to throw past the book; and set to writing you a letter.'

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : La Pucelle d'Orleans

'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Voltaire. This Mock-Heroic illustrates several things -First that the French held Voltaire a sort of demigod - secondly (and consequently) that they were wrong in so doing - and thirdly that the said Voltaire is the most impudent, blaspheming, libidinous blackgaurd [sic] that ever lived.'

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri, (of which a most delectable account is given in the Quarterly), Joanna Southcott, &c &c. I have been revising Akenside, since I saw you. - He pos[s]esses a warm imagination & great strength & beauty of diction. His poem, you know, does not like Campbell's "Hope" consist of a number of little incidents told in an interesting manner - & selected to illustrate his positions - it is little else than a moral declamation. Nevertheless I like it. Akenside was an enthusiastic admirer of the ancient republics and of the ancient philosophers - He thought highly of Lord Shaftesbury's principles & had a bad opinion of Scotsmen. For this last peculiarity, he has been severely caricatured by Smollet[t] in his Peregrine Pickle - under the character of the fantastic English Doctor in Franc[e] - When we mention Shaftesbury - is his book in your pos[s]ession, and can you let me have a reading of it?'

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

[unknown] : [an Italian Grammar]

'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: I was in no particular want of it & you ought certainly to have done with the money whatever your situation required. - One is apt to be put about, when obliged to equip for such an expedition as yours. - The Italian grammar is hardly calculated for me - but answers in the mean time. The Novelle morale is an excellent book for the purpose'.

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

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

Davitt meets with a fellow prisoner released on ticket-of-leave: '"I promised you", he exclaimed upon meeting me, "that I would live 'on the square' in future, and here is evidence of a commencement," showing me at the same time a copy of the "Daily Telegraph" with an advertisement as follows: - "Wanted, two hundred barmaids." "That", remarked "Jerry", "is simply to arrest the attention of the fair sex, and case them to read what follows. 'Extraordinary triumph of science! Marvellous results to health and complexion from the use of Fitzjerry's skin purifier. Freckles and disfiguring marks removed by one phial. To be had only of respectable druggists."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Davitt Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : The Scotsman

'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I have seen them all - a little violent in their Whiggism; but well enough written in some places. Pillans & Jeffrey & Moncrieff and many others have been respectively named as the Editor. There is also a weekly essay "The Sale Room" begun about six weeks ago - by whom, I know not. The writers are not without abilities; but the last numbers seemed to indicate that the work was about to give up the ghost.'

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

[unknown] : The Sale Room

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal of foul & nauseating stuff, I was happy to see that due credit is at length given to Mr Duncan for his valuable institution.'

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

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

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

[n/a] : Dumfries Courier

'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmid] is become sole Editor; - it is not the opinion of the readers here, that the paper has been a gainer by the change. The Ranger seems (under favour) to be but a silly kind of person - and his friend Mr Bright is a very vapid gentleman. It is a pity that Spoudastes his labours have been curtailed, before he has completed his investigations. But we must make a shift to live without knowing who wrote Mary's dream.'

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

[n/a] : The Scotsman

'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerable length on the evils of pauperism, he proposes as a remedy to increase the number of clergymen. They who know the general habits of Scottish ministers will easily see how sovereign a specific this is. The remainder of the review is good reading; but as you will have seen it before this time, I will not trouble you farther on the matter - I have seen the last Number of the "Quarterly review". It seems to be getting into a very rotten frothy vein. Mr Southey is a most unblushing character; & his political lucubrations are very notable. He has been sorely galled by "the Caledonian Oracle" poor man - I know nothing about Mr Duncan's controversy except thro the "Scotsman"; and they assign him the victory'

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

[n/a] : Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland

'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very diligently this winter. Heaven grant it be so! for without increasing in knowledge what profits it to live? Yet the commencement has been inauspicious. Three weeks ago I began to read Wallace's "Fluxions" in the Encyclopaedia, and had proceeded a little way, when the "Quarterly Review", some problems in a very silly Literary and Statistical Magazine of which the the schoolmasters are supporters, Madm de Sta?l's "Germany", etc. etc., have suspended my operations these ten days. After all I am afraid that this winter will pass as others have done before it - unmarked by improvement; and what is to hinder the next, & its followers till the end of the short season allotted me to do so likewise?'

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

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since I ceased to be one of its admirers. The writers pos[s]ess no inconsiderable share of dogmatism; and their learning, which they are, to an unpleasant degree, fond of displaying[,] is of that minute & scholastic nature which is eminently distinguished from knowledge. Moreover their zeal for the "Social order" seems to eat them up[,] and their horror of revolution is violent as a hydrophobia. These qualities are prominent in the last number - and accordingly it contains much disgusting matter; but I like it better as a whole, than some of its predecessors. There is in it a distant and respectful but severe criticism on Dugald Stewart's writings, which comes much nearer my views of his character, than any of the panegyrics which the Edinr Reviewers have so lavishly bestowed upon him.'

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Magazine

'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a slight variation in the title. There is also another periodical publication published once a fortnight (I forget its name), begun under the auspices of Peter Hill. I perused only one article and can give no account of it. I cannot pretend to say what this influx of magazines indicates or portends.'

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Monthly Magazine

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh observer or Town and Country Magazine

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

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The greater part of it is full of gall: but the most venomous article is the "translation of a Chaldee manuscript" said to be found in the library of Paris - It is written in the phrase of the Scriptures - [and gives] an allegorical account of the origin & end of the late "Edinr magazine" - greatly to the [dis]paragement of Constable & the Editors - Most of the Authors of "Edinr" are characterised with great acrimony - under the likeness of birds & beasts & creeping things - "Blackwood" is like to be beleaguered with prosecutions for it - two are already raised against him. Replies in the shape of "explanations", "letters to Drs M'Crie and Thomson" have been put forth - more are promised - and doubtless, rejoinders are in a state of preparation. Whatever may become of "Blackwood" or his antagonists - the "reading" or rather the talking "public" is greatly beholden to the Author. He has kept its jaws moving these four weeks - and the sport is not finished yet'.

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

[anon] : The Scholar Armed

I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'

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

[unknown] : The Dissenter Tripped Up

I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; I thnk this latter very entertaining, but it was hardly worth while to crucify Barrere - Macauley might as well have selected Turpin'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] : Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829

'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you though you call yourself solitary live much more in the world than I do while I am in the Country'.

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

[n/a] : The Times

'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and grief to me'.

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

[n/a] : Bible

Extract from the journal of Adam Dodd: 'When I first came on board the A-, I was as thoughtless as anyone on board; but being soon afterwards made a teacher of a class, I felt myself compelled to attend the evening services. [comes to see himself as a sinner and need of repentence] ...I then sate down in the greatest mental distress. Taking my Bible, I calculated on the opposition I should meet with... I kept continually and anxiously searching my Bible... In this state I remained some time, praying and reading, and fearlessly yet meekly meeting with every opposition.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Dodd Print: Book

[unknown] : [the barren fig tree]

Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise on the "barren fig tree" had produced upon his mind - the insight it had given him into his character, and then alludes to some of the great and precious promises of the gospel; especially to those contained in Matt xi the chapter we had read in our usual course the proceeding evening. He makes also grateful reference to the first chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Colin Arrott Browning Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Confession of invalid convict George Day: 'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing on our attention the words of God, contained in the third chapter of John, verse thirty-six, and the fifth chapter, verse twenty fourth. I could scarcely believe it to be true at the time, for it seemed as though a voice spoke to me "He that believeth in the son have everlasting life". I was astonished!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Colin Arrott Browning Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'

[anon.] : Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant

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

Thomas Rennel [ed.] : [Sermons]

'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of fine animated declamation. The Bishop of London's have a very high character'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to read it because a few copies only had arrived in London. I like very much the review of Davy, think the review of Espriela much too severe and am extremely vexed by the review of Hoyle's Exodus. The levities it contains will I am sure give very great offence'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [The Budget]

'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ruin it in spite of all Brougham can say - and Perceval can do'.

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

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Talk and read the papers'

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]

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

[unknown] : [work in Italian]

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbon (vol 12 - 364) and the story of Myrrha in Ovid'.

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)'

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads Voltaire p. 126.'[end italics]

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations'

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain

'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations (203)'.

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

[anon.] : Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

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

[n/a] : [Gazettes / newspapers from paris]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Newspaper

Moliere [pseud.] : Les Precieuses Ridicules

[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper was called'. [Eugenia]: 'In the evening the Paris papers were read I did not give them any attention then we began to reread for Madame de Bombelles "Les Precieuses Ridicules" which was interrupted by supper'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Book

Robert Southey [anon.] : Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - again, only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

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

[anon.] : Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries

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

[n/a] : New Testament, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise x The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

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

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : Principal Officer's instructions

'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'

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

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Wren Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: James, Duke of York Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

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

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

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

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Brouncker Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]

'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another-gate's business than this that the world so much adores - and I am glad for my own sake to find it so.'

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

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book

[unknown] : [Report of the reforming commission of 1618]

'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, which I did read a good part of before church'

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards

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

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

[unknown] : [Greek texts]

' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it be so difficult - it so richly repays one. Yet I read little for I am not well.'

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

David Lyndsay [pseud.] : Dramas of theAncient World

'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say "Mary" - "It is Shelley" I thought - the revulsion was of agony - Never more shall I hear his beloved voice'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'

Unknown

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

Stendhal [pseud.] : Promenades dans Rome

'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it quite impossible to do anything with it' [leter to John George Cochrane, editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review - presumably Mary had undertaken to review the book]

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

Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.] : Marriage in High Life, A

'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life' [Letter to Charles Ollier]

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

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.] : Works of Garcilaso de la Vega

' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?' [letter to John Bowring who was helpiing Mary with Spanis researches]

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

[unknown] : [advertisement]

'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being burnt down, my attention was caught by one of the very numerous bills with which the boards, at that time surrounding it, were covered: it ran thus - "Susan Hopley; or the Life of a Maid Servant". This book, I thought to myself, must be a novelty...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Broadsheet

[John] [Cleave] : Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette

'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was subscribing to periodically issued numbers of the "Pickwick Papers". He had seen me in the breakfast hour poring over the contents of a dirty rag paper, - not that the matter was dirty, - but the paper itself was oiled, and worn from its being constantly carried about in my pocket. This was "Cleave's Gazette", published weekly at a penny, a sum I managed to screw out of my threepence a fortnight "old brass".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Brierley Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Examiner

'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]' [letter to Leigh Hunt]

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

[n/a] : Times

'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles' [letter to Claire Clairmont]

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

[n/a] : Times

'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come out in the Lucia' [sing in "Lucia di Lammermoor" [letter to Claire Clairmont]

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

[unknown] : [history]

'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passsages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation'.

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

[unknown] : [great poets' works]

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

[n/a] : Church Catechism

'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's "Selections"; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : History of Montezuma

'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being frightened by ghost stories told by the nursery-maids, as she had been once frightened herself. I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking my turn with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us "Anson's Voyages", or "Lemrier's Tour to Morocco", or the "History of Montezuma". When she had finished, we all, kneeling around her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Isaiah

'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this day. No one told me to do so, or even knew that I had done it. The beauty of the language, the exquisite musical rhythm of the sentences caught my ear, but I had little perception of anything beyond.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Arabian Nights Entertainments, The

'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain books to us, when as children we stayed with him at Binstead, on condition of our never touching any others. My brothers had Glanvill's "History of Witches", and we four had a handsome edition of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments", which, being unexpurgated, was not the wisest choice that could have been made, though it gave me hours of entrancing delight at the time, and taught me to understand allusions to tales which have become part of general literature'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters, including Eleanor Print: Book

[n/a] : Book of Judges

'[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of making a vow came into my head I had actually made it and was bound to keep it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'We formed a book-club amongst ourselves, chose and purchased some special favourite, or one which we heard praised, read it in turn, and then sold it by auction'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell and school friends Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only during the reading of the Scriptures but at all times. I tried to reason against the difficulties, but that only increased the evil'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliazbeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : [History of Venetian Doges]

'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : [a Spanish grammar]

'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : [a Spanish dictionary]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : [Linnaean botany book]

'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : [Oxford Movement sermons]

'My sisters and I had a volume of the sermons given by an Oxford friend of our brother William; but it was with the caution that there were two sermons which it was better for us not to read. The prohibition was ultimately taken off, but not till our friend had made up his mind that we were not likely to have our minds disturbed by the new teaching, which was extemely stern, and likely in some cases to be discouraging.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth M. Sewell and her sisters Print: Book

[unknown] : Life of Stephen Langton

'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of the English Saints" (These lives were small biographies written by the more extreme members of the Oxford party.) It is well written and interesting, but I cannot go with it Thomas a Becket is no saint to my mind, and I dislike the uncalled-for hits at the Reformation'. [text in parenthesis added by the author or editor, it is unclear which, when turning journal text into publishable material]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Times, The

'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [pamphlets and magazines]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]

'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I should like mightily to read the whole'.

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

[unknown] : Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]

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

[unknown] : [review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuvieme siecle"]

'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of it made me extremely desirous to see it. There are in it descriptions of the present Parisien world - the state of Religion, of society, of amusements, of schools, fashions &c, &c - And all appears fairly done, and in a manly unaffected manner. pate le 3eme [a little hand points to an ink blot] I should like also excessively to see [underlined] Catteau's Voyage en Allemagne et Suede. [end underlining] The little I read about it, has made me so fond of the Swedes! Not the Swedish nobles, but the tiers etat; the farmers, landholders and peasantry: they resemble the Swiss at their best; but appear still more carefully educated at their provincial schools, and are quite dear things.'

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

[unknown] : [review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Calleville, Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede]

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

Metastasio [pseud.] :

'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury Print: Book

Voltaire [pseud.] : Letters

'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

[unknown] : [Story of Perseus]

'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen Print: Book

[unknown] : [detective stories]

'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pure pleasure all her life'.

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

[n/a] : Encyclopaedia

'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'.

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'.

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

Stendhal [pseud.] : De l'amour

'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the French, found its way into "To the North". In 1932 she was reading for the first time Flaubert's "L'education sentimentale", and told Lady Ottoline: "What perfect writing, and what a clear powerful mind, and what a perfect picture of an enchantment he can produce. And what compass he has: this picture of colour and movement compared with the sad immobility of poor Bovary." A few months later she began translating it'.

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

Thomas Pringle [ed.] : Friendship's Offering

'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this year.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg Print: Serial / periodical

E.B. Eastwick ['ed'] : Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman : and his translations with his fellow-creatures

'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q. Review looks good too, and I hit upon a lively paper describing the Overland journey, which fell in well with the direction of my curiosity'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

Currer Bell [pseud.] : Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Scenes from Clerical Life

'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they began as early as Janry or February - They are a discovery of my own, & I am so proud of them. [italics] Do [end italics] read them. I have not a notion who wrote them'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [advertisement for the 'Psychological' magazine]

'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a paper on Charlotte Bronte. Having a very strong interest in the subject I should particularly wish to see that number and if you would kindly direct it to be forwarded to me, I would return the publisher the amount in postage stamps.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Advertisement

[unknown] : [unknown]

[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all quiet and nicely-lighted up; so Flossy began to read a book she had brought with her; and I got Hendschel's Telegraph (the German Bradshaw) off the table, and began to puzzle out my train to Strasbourg to meet Louy, - when, lo & behold, Flossy whispered to me, me, smelling of rum - that Mr Bosanquet had come in! I tucked my head down over my book, & told F.E. to take no notice; but he drew nearer and nearer, pretending to look at the affiches on the walls, until at last he came close, & said 'Mrs G. can I assist you in making out yr train'...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Elizabeth Gaskell Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud.] : Amos Barton

'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance three pretexts for asking this favour from you. Firstly my delight in the book; and in the "Stories from Clerical Life", ever since the first part of "Amos Barton" in Blackwood. It almost seems presumptuous in me to express all the admiration I feel; you might be tempted to quote Dr Johnson'.

[n/a] : Macmillan's Magazine

'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for whose benefit we are come, as she has outgrown her strength - six inches in the last twelve months. - We are delighted with [italics] our [end italics] type, & that we don't print in double columns which is so trying to the eyes; we put the page of the Virginians by a page of Macmillan last night & you can't think how much more legible [italics] ours [end italics] was.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia Print: Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : Scenes from Clerical Life

'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book, Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book, Serial / periodical

George Eliot [pseud.] : 'Amos Barton'

'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Annual Register

'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. The Annual Register has been [italics] carefully [end italics] looked over [italics] months [end italics] ago, & it is of no use going over the ground again'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Melle Mori

'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

George Eliot [pseud] : Mill on the Floss, The

'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be grateful enough to write this letter'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

[unknown] : [anthology of laudatory sonnets]

'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent to her 'from the author', & my own dear precious sonnet.' [Gaskell then transcribes the sonnet, beginning 'Sweet Vocalist; the Nightingale of sound!', asking smith - facetiously? - if he would like it for the Cornhill]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

[unknown] : London Guardian

'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they will both go to one of the Septr Representations'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [German/English dictionary]

'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

[n/a] : [Manchester newspaper]

'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Fraser's Magazine

'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforce' the young man we all used to meet in Rome; a very odd-looking, and as [italics] we [end italics] thought conceited person. But the poem tho' unpleasing from it's subject - which some people would say 'removes it from the province of art', - (and then where would Dante go?) is very strong & fine, so much more so than I should have expected from the author.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Atlantic Monthly

'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a letter of introduction to you'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Bosanquet Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [newspaper acconts of events in America in run up to Civil War]

'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing is Panorama painting; but still these three particulars alluded to above (3-months' service men leaving, - major leaving with wounded colonel, - New York enthusiasm) seem generally accepted as [italics] facts [end italics] by all papers.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [American newspaper extracts]

'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 1862.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton Print: Book

[n/a] : [Report of the Sanitary Commission]

'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one wanted to know.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Atlantic Monthly

'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an [italics] over [enditalics]-stern & violent man?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Daily News

'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this paper for?" said Florence {?} and she opened it, - & read out "Assassination of President Lincoln". My heart burnt within me with indignation & grief, - we could think of nothing else'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Elizabeth Crompton Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [book on portraits of Dante]

'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselves seem to carry one so [italics] up [end italics] into a ["]purer aether, a diviner air".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette

'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [italics] are [end italics] opened; but not considered objectionable I suppose.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Inquirer, The

'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [a history of the French Revolution]

'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'

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

[n/a] : Times, The

'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "Poor Capt Duckworth much lamented both by officers and men". That is all we know at present'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : ['standard works'; not novels]

'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you some advice as to what books to read. Mama wants to know how Miss Bronte can have become acquainted with the books that she mentions to you. From Keighley Mama knows she could get novels but where such standard works as Miss Bronte refers to in her letters were obtained is a puzzle to Mama. At Haworth Mama says she did not see many books except quite new ones that had been given to Miss Bronte since she became famous. If you would kindly let her know all you know.'

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

[unknown] : [French]

'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book

[unknown] : [letter to Marianne Gaskell]

'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at the same time which I snatched up and I could not believe I should be equally unfortunate with the second, but when I saw yours it was irresistible to read it; quite by way of chaperonage of course, and not a bit for gossipry. However, there is not much news of any kind in it, as you will find.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [unknown]

'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: 'the Heald girls' Print: Book

[n/a] : Edinburgh Review

'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [pamphlet]

'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe

[unknown] : [Miscellany]

'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - very kindly prest me to accept a Volume & a very pleasing Volume of Miscellanies which I will take with me if I live to reach Trowbridge again.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book

[unknown] : [poetry]

'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon the Subject: it is rather unmerciful, but I must bear it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by some Things.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [Travels]

'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book

[n/a] : Morning Herald, The

'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morning Herald. Other papers I do not see, except the provincial.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [book on witchcraft trials]

'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of Witches, a book wh I should like to see again'. [Crabbe outlines the witchcraft case in question]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown work on religious enthusiasm]

'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he does believe, which is not all that imaginative people [suppose.] He thinks the spread of Christianity over the World is rapidly going on with ev[ry] Prospect of Success, & that Every Believer should be a persuader & maker of Converts as far as his Abilities & powers &c extend-'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspapers at time of Reform debate]

'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [MSS by or about Carlyle]

'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [poetry]

'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has happened again now with the Rilke book'.

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

[unknown] : ['trash']

'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen to music.'

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

[unknown] : ['lives of painters']

'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.

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

[unknown] : ['journals of poets']

'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.

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

[n/a] : Vogue

'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised me some money for new clothes. Now the planning of them has become a nightmare. I want the clothes very badly. But looking through the pages of [italics] Vogue [end italics] has filled me with numb despair.' [because it is so hard to choose]

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

[unknown] : [French novels]

'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at it with curiosity then said "I expect you think I'm rude, looking like that. But I used to read a lot of those sorts of books once" "What sort of books?" "Oh, yellow books like that. I picked up a lot in a booksellers. But mine were much bigger than that" "What were they?" "Oh I don't remember their names or what they were about" "Do you remember the authors?" "Can't say I do. I seem to remember one was some sort of a Japanese story" "And they were in French?" "Oh yes, in French of course".'

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

George Eliot [pseud.] : Mill on the Floss, The

'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read it.'

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

George Eliot [pseud.] : Mill on the Floss, The

'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begin to think George Eliot is not only the greatest English woman novelist but perhaps the greatest English novelist. She has not the fiery poetry of Emily Bronte nor the exquisite surface of Jane Austen but she has a richness and sweep and depth that is Shakespearean. The one thing that maims or constrains her a little is some rigid moral sense which goes against her [italics] natural [end italics ] morality. She is haunted by an impossible ideal of purity and strictness. In [italics] Middlemarch [end italics] and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] she incarnates this in two women; one so impossibly good that she is repellent. I am in for a George Eliot bout as a drunkard goes on a jag. Over dinner I raced through a short life of her.'

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

George Eliot [pseud.] : Adam Bede

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

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book

[n/a] : Champion, The

'Here entered our kind Host, and brought us a Paper called the [italics] Champion [end italics], in which was a very humorous Piece of Advice to all who went to Court, to wear Shields on their Bums, this was so [italics] Mal a propos [end italics] that it raised our Mirth'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : [newspapers]

[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason I always read the News; - then I dress, and, about Twelve go to the [italics] Cocoa-Tree [end italics], where I talk Treason; from thence to [italics] St James's Coffee-house [end italics], where I praise the Ministry; then to [italics] White's [end italics], where I talk Gallantry; so by Three, I return home to Dinner; after that, I read about an Hour, and digest the Book and the Dinner together'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Rooke Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Rooke Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on Roman History]

'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar [end italics], and [italics] Brutus [end italics] from both, but he related a great Part of [italics] Roman[end italics] History to me, even from the first [italics] Punic [end italics] War to the Death of [italics] Julius [end italics]. My Readers may venture to believe it was not new to me, who had from my Childhood been, if I may use the Word, a perfect Devourer of Books; and I found them both sweet to the Palate, and nourishing Food to the Mind.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book

[unknown] : [a French drinking song]

'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, to translate a [italics] French Chanson a boire [end italics].'

Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington

[unknown] : [prison discharge document]

[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over these Words, [italics] Discharge from your Custody the body of, &c. [end italics], as I was by nine Weeks Confinement, Sickness, and Fasting, rendered quite weak, the joyful Surprize made me faint away several Times, and, indeed, my kind Benefactor had like to have frustrated his own generous Design of preserving me.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Manuscript: Unknown

[unknown] : [inscriptions]

'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but was infinitely shocked to find I was locked in to the solitary Mansions of the Dead'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Manuscript: Graffito

[unknown] : [poetry by various correspondents]

'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it would have proved as odd a Medley as any thing ever yet exhiited to publick View; I suppose everyone who fancied they had Wit, had a Mind to see how it would look in print, but I must beg to be excused; though the learned Mr [italics] Timothy Ticle Picker [end italics] pressed very hard for a place, it would be a strong Proof of my Vanity to insert his anti-sublime compliments to me'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Manuscript: Unknown

[n/a] : Old Testament

'Indeed it were to wished that either this learned and excellent Divine [Dr Delany], or some other of equal Abilities, if such may be found, would oblige the World with a new translation of the [italics] Old Testament [end italics], since, as we now have it, it seems filled with Incongruities, Indecencies, and shocking Absurdities, such as the Holy Spirit could never have dictated, [italics] whose Body is light, and whose Shadow Truth'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book

[unknown] : The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers

'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [italics] A parallel between Mrs Pilkington and Mrs Philips, written by an Oxford Scholar [end italics], as he tells us, himself, starving in a Garret: pray, Mr Scholar, deal ingenuously, did not [italics] Worsdale [end italics] hire you to writeit, because he was indolent'. [LP proceeds at length to refute the arguments of the papmhlet]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington

[unknown] : [poems sent by admirers]

'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Mind and Person too, sent to me since I came to [italics]Ireland [end italics]; that I believe some Gentlemen, tho' I cannot, have found me out to be a marvelous proper Womaan'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [a review of Ford's work]

'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had read the British weekly which says "Mr H's literary power does not fall short of genius!" which struck them as comic'.

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

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [book on wild flowers]

'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it worth it?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper classifieds]

'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't know where Fulking is - but I have written to the owner to ask & if it is not too far I shall run over to see it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : [press cuttings - subject unknown]

'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Authors Club as an address for the Press Cuttings people, as the fewer things go to S.L. the better.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [first reading]

'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Perhaps she will be writing short stories by your return!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the morning with a newspaper & thinks no one is noticing her, she prattles on about B for Bodog's; P for Piggy & points to the right letters.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : World, The

'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlining] that I send you.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Daily Mail, The

'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times]

'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Europe with a younger and more robust Egeria. I meant to send you the review in the N.Y. Times which contained those phrases, but I forgot it and it is impossible to get back issues of papers here.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : New York Times

'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTIFUL BUT SHE IS KNOCK-KNEED SAYS FLORENCE SIEGFIELDJUN'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly']

'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.

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

[unknown] : [research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods']

'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying over it I am fair moidert'.

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

[unknown] : [article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings]

'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many people'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Saturday Review

'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne picture.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [research for 'A Little Less than Gods']

'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'

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

[n/a] : Saturday Review

'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the Saturday Review which has one.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : New York Times Book Review

'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [articles on Pacific politics]

'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insisted on reading aloud passages from the life and letters of Gauguin, the artist.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [life and letters of Gauguin]

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing this. He sits about doing me while I work or read or play patience'.

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

[unknown] : [various fiction works in his father's library]

'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: Philip Larkin Print: Book

[n/a] : Die Zeit

'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose contents, in tone not unlike "The Times" of those days, you would hear chewed over, in the heavy accents of eastern Europe, by little groups in the street of a summer evening, or at the Workers' Circle on a Sunday morning'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jewish residents of the Gorbals Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [books in English]

'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, oddly, refused to read the English papers; I fancy he thought more highly of books. I dimly remember evenings, before mother became very ill, when she sat with him at the kitchen table while he ate his dinner, and with obvious delight read an English paper to him. She also of course read "Die Zeit", and letters in Yiddish from relatives left behind in Lithuania; these came more and more infrequently and finally died away. I suppose she never had time to read anything else'.

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

[n/a] : [English newspapers]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Glasser Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Die Zeit

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Glasser Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Who's Who

'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the sleek, well-nourished university students, I became so familiar to the staff that they dubbed me, in kindly fashion, "the young professor". One day, perhaps as a piece of sympathetic magic, I looked up Einstein's massive entry in "Who's Who" and copied it out word for word, his universities, degrees, honorary doctorates, publications. I kept that transcript pasted into an exercise book, a talisman'.

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

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

[n/a] : [announcement of Einstein talk]

'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Encyclopaedia Britannica

'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history and ideas, particularly of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, logic. It was a halting progress, for at every step I had to make up for lack of background, of facts, of definitions, of words, and buried my nose in dictionaries and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", which led of course to more and more sideways reading.'

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

[n/a] : [dictionaries]

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

[unknown] : [books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]

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

[unknown] : [books on politics]

'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'.

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

[n/a] : [newspaper reports on Russia]

'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [acceptance letter from Oxford University]

'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its strange, sonorous, processional language. "Willing to come into residence": you didn't go and stay, you went into [italics] residence [end italics]!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford University]

'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces, and read the letter, screwing up her eyes'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rachel Manuscript: Letter

[n/a] : [inscriptions at the Bodleian library]

'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorway, Scola Mathematica, Schola Physica - the sovereign estates of the mind laid out as on a chart'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Manuscript: Graffito

[unknown] : [unknown]

'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the echoing ablutions, when I ran a bath or flushed the toilet and sometimes, forgetfully, strolled about whistling'.

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

[unknown] : [a girl's diary]

'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the corridor - I saw that she had left her diary open, it seemed deliberately, and I saw my name and the words "he is a glorious young animal!"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Manuscript: Codex

[unknown] : [Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]

'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explained in reading and in lectures. We talked of French and German poetry'.

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

[unknown] : [German poetry]

'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.

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

[unknown] : [citation for bravery]

'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Unknown

[n/a] : [Intelligence lists of communists]

'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in a tipsy huddle cose to the wheezing gas fire, she murmured that she had seen my unusual name in an index of Communists'.

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

[n/a] : [Oxford Finals Class Lists]

'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, separated from those below by a blank space and a thick black line. Under a heading "The following were judged worthy of Distinction", were three names; mine was there.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Poster

[unknown] : [unknown]

'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical fashion, he [Glasser's father] looked after himself well, read a great deal, played solo whist in the Workers' Circle, spent hours chewing over the world with friends.'

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

[unknown] : [poems]

'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse with a note: "This is to get you into trouble with the secret police!" A characteristic irony, for the poems were far from subversive; the reference, I think, was rather to what he [italics] could [end italics] have written but had suppressed'.

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

[unknown] : [novels]

'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; admitting her taste with unusual frankness: "I did not read novels when very young, and possibly I like them all the better afterwards; they are like wine to a person not used to them, but I fear I have been a downright dram-drinker, so long have they lost their effect".'

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

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in the newspapers I will not repeat anything here.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [history books]

'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read of both in English and Scotch history, which I always think amusing'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'.

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

[unknown] : Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt]

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

[unknown] : [description of the Court of Haiti]

'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that is really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]

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

[unknown] : [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in America]

'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Holroyd Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america]

'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]

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

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no one's behaviour can have been worse. But they (the newspapers) make me absolutely sick with the stuff they insert about his poor father, sometimes absolutely false, sometimes stories caught by the tail, twisted and blundered, till the original teller could not know them again'

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

[n/a] : Edinburgh Magazine

'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a design to ridicule the priesthood, it is as unjust as if they said the Templar and de Bracey were intended to render the character of a soldier odious'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Clinton Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon

'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have the [italics] sceau [end italics] of his genius and of his profound art. I am also reading "Journal de Las Cases". I shut one book where he himself details the precautions taken to secure personal liberty under his government, the strict laws for the purpose, no person could be kept in prison a day without so, and so, and so, judges, privy council, and I know not what. I opened the other where Las Cases says that on looking over papers at St Helena, the Emperor was himself surprised to see the number of books prohibited and of [italics] persons arrested by the police [end italics], whom he had never heard of and knew nothing about'.

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

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had something to set it off, however; for I think verily the temporary editor of the work during the [italics] interregnum [end italics] must have been bribed into his extreme degree of dullness'.

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

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

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

[n/a] : Morning Post

'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the "Courier" and "Morning Post", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'

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

[n/a] : Courier, The

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

[n/a] : [Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Chancery Case]

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

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the newspapers said £19,000 or £29,000. Ten thousand makes some difference, but even the smaller sum would be tremedous.'

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

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting that the secret had been remarkably well kept, considering above twenty people knew it, [italics] one [end italics] of whom, to say truth, is now writing to you'.

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

[n/a] : Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming works by Scott]

'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". By the bye, it has struck me that the review of Southey's "John Bunyan" bears some tokens of coming from that quarter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan"]

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

[n/a] : [newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"]

'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, written by his [italics] literary adviser [end italics] you may be sure, just in the same spirit as the puffs of Warren's blacking and Rowland's kalydor. Oh dear! it is a degradation I cannot bear'. [LS is arguing that aristocrats ought not admit to publishing books]

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

[n/a] : Court Journal

'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevelyan" was written by Ly S. of Petersham".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevelyan and other books]

'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and almost regret my sincerity in taking notice of them to [italics] her [end italics] lest she should be hurt; for I cannot help saying what I think just [italics] as [end italics] I think it'.

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

[unknown] : [legal briefs]

[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to him when he returned home tired from the House of Commons, and marking from his dictation those passages he deemed of importance'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly

[unknown] : [letter to Madame de Stael]

'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first arise on coming to this country. I will try if I can get you a copy of it. Mademoiselle [Albertine] is very much praised in it, but I do not think that we admire her as much as they did in Sweden.' [The letter is included]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Manuscript: Letter

[unknown] : [novel by a lady novelist]

'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'.

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

[unknown] : [novel by a lady novelist]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Philanthropist, The

'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Publication which is perhaps not much known in Ireland but which contains some very excellent articles.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley']

'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Eugene

'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverley"], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read "Discipline" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as "Waverley" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book

[n/a] : Morning Chronicle

'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the "Morning Chronicle" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the "Farewell" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the "Sketch from Private Life" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [Reports on Mendicity]

'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully written. I have seen in the reports on mendicity that there are persons who teach the arts of abuse - His Lordship seems to have studied in this school, with great success'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unidentified novel]

'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much that one wishes to forget, that I am not inclined to write about them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise of liberality and enlightened sentiment I should suppose had never before been exhibited. The Cause was heard in the Chancellor's private room out of compassion to Mr Shelley and his family. The account which appeared in the papers must have been written by himself, or his friend Mr Hunt of the "Examiner" who was present, and they went so far that the Chancellor intimated that he would have a rehearing of the cause in public and they immediately became silent'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Quarterly Review

'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of error from beginning to end'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [reading primer]

'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of reading, I bought me a Primer, and got now one, then another, to teach me to Spell, and so learn'd to Read imperfectly, my Teachers themselves not being ready Readers: But in a little time, having learn'd to Read competently well, I was desirous to learn to Write, but was at a great loss for a Master, none of my fellow Shepherds being able to teach me'.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I was then engaged in a laborious trade and not allowed time for such Imployments of the Brain; yet I was so intent on my Study, that abridged myself of my Sleep and Rest. For after having wrought hard all day, from Five or Six in the Morning, till Ten or Eleven at Night, it was frequent with me to sit up two or three Hours reading'.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon Print: Book

[unknown] : [books on astrology]

'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad taking their Pleasure. I was then upon Astrolgy [sic], a Science too rashly decried by some' [he then discusses the merits of Astrology at length, but not mentioning any specific texts]

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon Print: Book

[unknown] : [books]

'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertains herself with a book for the improvement of her mind'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.

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

[unknown] : [A history of England]

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

[unknown] : [scholastic divinity essays]

'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete page of scholastic divinity, which must have been better calculated to exercise the memory than to call forth the devotional affections'.

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

[n/a] : Bible

'[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which to her ardent temper was insupportable, she took the prompt resolution of reading the scriptures by stealth, and deciding the question from her own unbiassed judgment. The result of this examination was, a conviction of their truth; and she observed that the moral precepts connected with the doctrine of Christianity, were too pure to have been promulgated by an impostor'.

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

[unknown] : [books chosen by Mrs Marshall]

'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Marshall Print: Book

[unknown] : [Scottish history]

'[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella Stuart; and, either to extend her knowledge, or amuse her fancy, collected much miscellaneous information respecting her, which she afterwards cast into the form of a historical novel'.

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'History and travels are our chief favourites; but with them we intermix a variety of miscellaneous literature, with now and then a favourite novel, to relish our graver studies'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall Print: Book

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that ship being seen off the Cape in great distress; at length its arrival was announced, and, on Saturday last, among the list of passengers, I saw your name; but still I was not, could not be, convinced that it was really you'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Gentleman's Magazine, The

'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted the notice and esteem of Johnson, in an eminent degree, before he came to London as an adventurer in literature'.

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

[n/a] : Scot's Magazine, The

'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The Scots Magazine", which was begun at Edinburgh in the year 1739, and has been ever conducted with judgement, accuracy, and propriety'.

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

[unknown] : ['The Italian' - unknown text]

'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well'

Unknown

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

[unknown] : [sources for his Dictionary]

'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black lead pencil, the traces of which could easily be effaced'.

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

[unknown] : [books of Northern literature]

'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr Wise read to us a dissertation which he was preparing for the press, intitled "A History and Chronology of the fabulous Ages".'

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

[n/a] : The Universal Visitor

'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that of these, neither "The Life of Chaucer", "Reflections on the State of Portugal", nor an "Essay on Architecture", were written by him. I am equally confident, upon the same evidence, that he wrote "Further Thoughts on Agriculture"; being the sequel of a very inferiour essay on the same subject, and which, though carried on as if by the same hand, is both in thinking and expression so far above it, as to leave no doubt of its true parent; and that he also wrote "A Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authors", and "A Dissertation on the Epitaphs Written by Pope".'

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Candide: Or, All for the Best

'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most important scenes of human life, and shews us that this stage of our being is full of "vanity and vexation of spirit". [Boswell comments on its value] Voltaire's "Candide", written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's "Rasselas"; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other. Though the proposition illustrated by both these works was the same, namely, that in our present state there is more evil than good, the intention of the writers was very different. Voltaire, I am afraid, meant only by wanton profanness to obtain a sportive victory over religion, and to discredit the belief of a superintending Providence: Johnson meant, by shewing the unsatisfactory nature of things temporal, to direct the hopes of man to things eternal'.

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Candide: Or, All for the Best

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

[unknown] : [book on astronomy]

'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dctionary" "Fell into my hands when I was eight" (as he said in his old age) and "attached my affections to paganism".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'

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

[unknown] : [a French magazine]

'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty oriental tale; translate that, and send it to your printer". Mr Murphy, having read the tale, was highly pleased with it, and followed Foote's advice. When he returned to town, this tale was pointed out to him in "The Rambler", from whence it had been translated into the French magazine.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Foote Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [a French magazine]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Rambler, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Connoisseur, The

I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : World, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Connoisseur, The

'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good; but I had all the facts."'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read; that he had read a great deal in the early part of his life, but having fallen into ill health, he had not been able to read much, compared with others: for instance, he said, he had not read much, compared with Dr. Warburton.'

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

[unknown] : [Lowth-Warburton controversy]

'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburton has most general, most scholastic learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end." His Majesty then asked him what he thought of Lord Lyttelton's history, which was then just published. Johnson said, he thought his style pretty good, but he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much.'

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

[unknown] : [Lowth-Warburton controversy]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George III of England Print: Book

[n/a] : Monthly Review

'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the "Monthly Review" was done with most care, the "Critical" upon the best principles; adding that the authors of the "Monthly Review" were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry to hear. The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions, when Johnson observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly. "Aye, (said the King,) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ;" for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot.'

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

[n/a] : Critical Review

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

[n/a] : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'between reading, chatting and backgammon, we conclude the evening, and usually retire, making the remark, that if we are not regaled by any high-seasoned amusements, we are disturbed by no uneasy cares'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall Print: Book

[n/a] : Hedaya

[EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Persian tome'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : [oriental literature]

'[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and without affecting to become a Persian scholar, she spontaneously caught the idioms, as she insensibly became familiar with the customs and manners of the East'.

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

[n/a] : [Classical latin works in translation]

'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium of translation, she had been conversant with the best historians, annalists, poets, and orators of ancient Rome; and she was guided by the most esteemed modern writers on the subject of antiquities, laws, and usages'. [in writing her "Memoirs of Agrippina"]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book

[n/a] : [modern works on Classical subjects]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting book, which, according to her good aunt Marshall's rule, was read aloud for the benefit of the whole party'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4]

'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in which the Apostle, whose words I have now been reading, mentions, "With all lowliness and meekness, and with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace".'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persevere in making those Scriptures their daily study. By such strict and repeated examination of any other work, how many errors and incongruities should we discover?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things have occurred to me which it would have been useful to preserve' [but she says her memory is 'unfaithful']

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that permission, by adding to their books a Baskerville's 'Virgil'. I have now sent it, and desire you to reposit it on the shelves in my name'.

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

[n/a] : London Chronicle

'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it aloud was assigned to me. I was diverted by his impatience. He made me pass over so many parts of it, that my task was very easy. He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middlesex election to be read.'

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

[n/a] : London Chronicle

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

[unknown] : ['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.]

'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus", he much commended him as a scholar, and a man of the must companionable talents he had ever known. He said, the defects in his history proceeded not from imbecility, but from foppery. He loved, he said, the old black letter books; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant; wonderfully so, considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.'

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

[unknown] : [French novels]

'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]

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

[unknown] : [legal case papers]

'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and proposed to read to him the printed papers concerning it. "No, sir (said he), I can read quicker than I can hear." So he read them to himself.'

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

[unknown] : [legal case papers]

'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it is troublesome to you." "Why, Sir (said he), I do not take much delight in it; but I'll go through it".'

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

[unknown] : [legal trial papers]

'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.'

Unknown

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

[n/a] : Bible

'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious duties, particularly in reading the Holy Scriptures'.

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

[n/a] : London Chronicle

'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the "London Chronicle" Dr. Goldsmith's apology to the publick for beating Evans, a bookseller, on account of a paragraph 5 in a newspaper published by him, which Goldsmith thought impertinent to him and to a lady of his acquaintance. The apology was written so much in Dr. Johnson's manner that both Mrs. Williams and I supposed it to be his; but when he came home, he soon undeceived us. When he said to Mrs. Williams, "Well, Dr. Goldsmith's manifesto has got into your paper;" I asked him if Dr. Goldsmith had written it, with an air that made him see I suspected it was his, though subscribed by Goldsmith. Johnson. "Sir, Dr. Goldsmith would no more have asked me to write such a thing as that for him than he would have asked me to feed him with a spoon, or to do any thing else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it as if I had seen him do it".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Williams Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Greek New Testament

'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and I turned over several of his books.'

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

[unknown] : [books belonging to Johnson]

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

[unknown] : [a recently published book]

'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you not read it through?" Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, "No, sir; do [italics] you [end italics] read books [italics] through [end italics]?"'

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

[unknown] : [a recently published book]

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

George Sand [pseud.] : [unknown]

'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 "Scenes de la Vie Boheme" was deepy influential), Comte (notably "Cours de Philosophie Positive" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read "Fathers and Sons" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'.

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'.

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

George Sand [pseud.] : [unknown]

'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.

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

anon [Religious Tract Society] : tracts

'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of those religious tracts which are published by the Religious Tract Society, and sold cheap by T. Williams, Stationer's-court, Ludgate-street, London. . . I was much pleased with an opportunity of procuring some of them. I took one of each of more than thirty sorts; and when I got home, Mrs L and I read them over together, in order to know if they were proper to be dispersed abroad, and whether they were calculated to do good to such as should read them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: tracts

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull and Ulva, in which many passengers were lost, and among them Maclean of Col. We, you know, were once drowned; I hope, therefore, that the story is either wantonly or erroneously told. Pray satisfy me by the next post.'

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

[n/a] : [Greek Testaments]

'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, was a proper time for a new course of life. I began to read the Greek Testament regularly at 160 verses every Sunday. This day I began the Acts. In this week I read Virgil's 'Pastorals'. I learned to repeat the 'Pollio' and 'Gallus'. I read carelessly the first 'Georgick'." Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for "divine and human lore," when advanced into his sixty-fifty year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. It is remarkable, that he was very fond of the precision which calculation produces. Thus we find in one of his manuscript diaries, "12 pages in 4to Gr. Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 10 days".'

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

[unknown] : [verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]

'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being mentioned, he held them very cheap: "[italics] Bouts rimes [end italics] (said he), is a mere conceit, and an [italics] old [end italics] conceit [italics] now [end italics]; I wonder how people were persuaded to write in that manner for this lady."

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

[n/a] : [various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland']

'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands" was attacked in every mode; and I read a great part of them to him, knowing they would afford him entertainment. I wish the writers of them had been present: they would have been sufficiently vexed. One ludicrous imitation of his style, by Mr. Maclaurin, now one of the Scotch Judges, with the title of Lord Dreghorn, was distinguished by him from the rude mass. "This (said he) is the best. But I could caricature my own style much better myself." He defended his remark upon the general insufficiency of education in Scotland; and confirmed to me the authenticity of his witty saying on the learning of the Scotch;—"Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal".'

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

[n/a] : Durandi Sanctuarium

'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be with wooden types, and part with pages cut in boards.—The Bible, supposed to be older than that of Mentz, in 62 [1462]; it has no date, it is supposed to have been printed with wooden types.—I am in doubt; the print is large and fair, in two folios.—Another book was shewn me, supposed to have been printed with wooden types;—I think, "Durandi Sanctuarium" in 58 [1458]. This is inferred from the difference of form sometimes seen in the same letter, which might be struck with different puncheons.—The regular similitude of most letters proves better that they are metal.—I saw nothing but the "Speculum" which I had not seen, I think, before'.

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

Florentius Volusenus [pseud.] : De Animi Tranquillitate

'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of Volusenus, according to the custom of literary men at a certain period. It is entitled "De Animi Tranquillitate" I earnestly desire tranquillity'.

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

John Oxenham [pseud.] : [light novels]

'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her own reading scarcely extended beyond light novels and the pious, naive verse of John Oxenham'.

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

John Oxenham [pseud.] : Vision Splendid, The

'[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, including, for example, a poem in John Oxenham's "The Vision Splendid" (1917), a book Owen had read at Craiglockhart'.

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

'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its God. After dinner I taught Danny to read and did a little logic. Since that I have been reading aloud a long homily and there I committed a fault. John asked me to let him read and I did not, which takes off the satisfaction of reading for I did not do as I would be done by.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Gurney Print: Book

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

[n/a] : Bible

'The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interesting occasions that leave a lasting impression on the minds of those who witness them. There was a great uncertainty whether the poor convicts would see their benefactress again. She stood at the door of the cabin, attended by her friends and the Captain; the women on the quarter-deck facing them. The sailors, anxious to see what was going on, clambered into the rigging, on to the capstan, or mingled in the outskirts of the group. The silence was profound - when Mrs Fry opened her Bible, and in a clear audible voice, read a portion from it. The crews of the other vessels in the tier, attracted by the novelty of the scene, lent over the ships on either side and listened apparently with great attention; she closed the Bible, and after a short pause, knelt down on the deck, and implored a blessing on this work of Christian charity from that God, who, though one may sow and another water, can alone give the increase. Many of the women wept bitterly, all seemed touched'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book

Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 18 Aug 1838: 'These journeys are, I trust, not lost time; we have two Scripture readings daily in the carriage, and much instructive conversation; also abundant time for that which is so important, the private reading of the Holy Scripture. This is very precious to dear Elizabeth Fry, and I have often thought it a privilege to note her reverent "marking and learning" of these sacred truths of divine inspiration. Often does she lay down the Book, close her eyes, and wait upon Him, who hath the key of David to open and seal the instruction of the sacred page. Truly it helps to explain how her "profiting appears unto all" when she is thus diligent and fervent, in "meditating upon these things", and giving herself wholly to them'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady E.K. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... She then entered the service of Mr A., knowing his mother to be a serious character and presuming that the son would be the same. But in this she was mistaken ... During the three years of her residence under Mr A.'s roof, she heard a chapter of the Bible read but once, and that was one Sunday evening after the death of his mother ... she soon ceased to read her Bible, and, thus falling by little and little, she first neglected the forms of religion, and then grossly departed from its precepts'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... [in the gaol in Monmouth] Conscience was there aroused from its long slumber. She met with a little book which recalled to her memory the instructions she had received from Lady E.K., and the feelings thus excited were, through the overruling power and grace of God, confirmed and strengthened'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts Print: Book

[unknown] : [hymn-book]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect while she remained in Newgate ... Her health was declining when she was liberated, and at her own desire, admission into the St James's Infirmary was procured for her. There she became rapidly worse ... She was reminded that though too weak to read, she might try and recal what she had formerly read; and several times when passages of Scripture were begun, she would take them up, repeating them from memory'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary O'Connor Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834. From the period of her conviction, her mind seems to have been exercised with a sense of her sinful state; and she frequently said, she had never forgotten the impression she felt on hearing the Eighty-eighth Psalm read immediately on her return to the prison after her trial.'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She was indeed in bad health at the time of her coming to Newgate; she believed she should not recover, and her dread of death was extreme. She could not read, but it was her delight to listen to the Scriptures, and when others who were more dangerously ill were read to in the adjoining ward of the Infirmary, she would come, whether invited or not, to hear what was read'

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

[n/a] : The Telegraph

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

[n/a] : Illustrated [?]

[unknown] : [unknown]

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read the papers'

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

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]

'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read the papers'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus'

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

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser

'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connected with the Beechworth Gaol was more or less censured in the Report excepting "Gibson" & that there would probably be dismissals & removals'

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

[n/a] : Melbourne Punch

'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian Dean leering most sensually at a lady sitting beside him while the Melbourne Dean was looking horrified at the short skirts of one of the waitresses of the Oriental Cafe. Punch has a piece of poetry on the subject & advises the Committee of Clergymen who are to put down immorality first to look to the beam at home among themselves before they attack the mote in society at large'

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

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]

'After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

' In the Australasian of yesterday "The Peripatetic" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of Free Speech for a mess of official porridge in other words Marcus Clarke the Peripatetic has been appointed Secretary to the (illegible) [Union?]. The Australasian will miss the P.P.s column.'

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

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide. In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'

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

[n/a] : Melbourne Punch

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

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

[n/a] : Touchstone

'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.'

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

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser

'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth'

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

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening'

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

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea. In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with his sums read a bit of Blackwood smoked my pipe & went to bed tolerably early'

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

[n/a] : Blackwood's Magazine

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

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

[n/a] : Argus

'Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of "Earl" as Second favourite for the Metropolitan. This is one of the horses that Ellis & I have in our double Metn. & Cup'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the whole of the time.'

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

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]

'After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'

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

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening "Castieau" was mentioned among the passengers in a Steam-boat from Sydney felt convinced however it was a mistake as I have never heard of any one of our name on this side of the world excepting my sisters & myself.'

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

[n/a] : The Age

'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather believed in the accident than otherwise'

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

[n/a] : Argus

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

[n/a] : Punch

'After muster went into Melbourne & called at "the Yorick", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not a very flattering one but still a good likeness. The letter-press added to the picture was kindly worded so I suppose the doctor will not be very much displeased though the lips are represented as decidedly heavy & his general expression rather more sleepy than intellectual looking'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking for a change'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'The "Argus" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astounding is its brief history.'

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

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]

'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them all Ordinary, Illustrated or Comic. "War" is the inspiration of their columns. Stayed at home this evening played cribbage with Polly. Then when she went to bed sat & read the Standard'

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

[n/a] : Standard

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

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the names of three gentleman who were to take their places'

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

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser

'At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer'

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

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Solicitor General to the Honorary Magistrates in which was pointed out that it had become known some of the magistrates had received payment for the performance of their honorary duties & that this was highly improper Of course the magistrates as a whole were "highly honorable men" but some were not the "clean potato" & this circular was just a warning, that any magistrate taking "tip" & being found out would be kicked out of the Commission without delay, really a remarkable circular & highly flattering to the "great unpaid".'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded. Read also another portion of Lothair must confess with less pleasure than I felt in perusing some of the previous chapters. The part I read to-day related exclusively to the Wiles of the Roman Catholic Clergy in their strenuous efforts to ensnare Lothair in their toils & win him & his money over to the Church. It did not seem natural to me High Dignitaries of the Church within a step of the Pope himself would have condescended to plot as they are represented to Plot, nor that any one in his senses could have been imposed upon & made act so foolishly as Lothair is represented to have acted.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied with myself & the world in general'

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

[n/a] : [unknown]

'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'

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

[n/a] : All the Year Round

'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'

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

[n/a] : [unknown]

'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy & then went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser

'then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate copy of a Photograph of Bismarck'

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

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]

'then went to "the Yorick" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about "Supple" read the papers then came home.'

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

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser

'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time'

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

[n/a] : [placard]

'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which was posted outside "the Argus office" as follows "The Prussians are in Paris" This flew like wild-fire & was left uncontradicted though the placard was after a time taken down, it proved of course to have been a mistake, but it certainly whetted the appetite very strongly for the Extraordinary which was eagerly rushed so soon as it was procurable about eight thousand copies were sold a nice little extra for the Argus Proprietors & the News Boys. Was at home most of the evening the news was most exciting & much anxiety was felt with regard to the feeling said to be shown in England in favour of the French Republic & against the Queen & Prince of Wales.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster

'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryborough. It seems Bowman pitched into Smith for slandering him, poor Smith seems bound to be constantly & unpleasantly before the Public. Went in the evening to the Mechanics to change a book, then looked in at the Yorick & read for a time'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Argus

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

[n/a] : Punch

'In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers'

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

[n/a] : Punch

'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this month, one cartoon especially a Study in the Palace of Versailles, the king of Prussia Booted & spurred, yet in an easy chair having a pipe over the Plans of Paris & wearing a self satisfied air, behind him the shades of Louis the fourteenth & Napoleon "Is this the end of all the triumphs" Another Cartoon represents "a real German defeat" the Marquis of Lorn with his royal bride leaning fondly on him while in the distance are to be seen a crowd of Uniformed, Whiskered & bewaxed German princes wailing, & gnashing at the sight though still sucking away at their Meerchaums.'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

' I passed the morning reading the Australasian'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick'

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

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]

'then read the papers at "The Yorick"'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the article I took them last night'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I [spouted?] for his & my amusement. From a Telegram in the evening paper I saw that some lucky ones had got a nugget of 43 lbs weight at Berlin, a nice New Year's Gift for the lucky finders'

[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette

'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of "Hanging" was carried out. The writer from English experience argued that the necks of the criminals were as a rule not dislocated & that those who died at the hangman's hands were simply throttled. The writer considered the punishment might be much more humanely carried out. The simple truth of the matter is the ropes used in England are not long enough. If more fall was given dislocation of the neck would take place & from what I have seen in this country no fault could then be found as the death would be both merciful & speedy.'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is said to have been the cause of the accident. Did Harry's sums for him this evening & then read "Handy Andy" as the weather was so bad I could not very well go out.'

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

'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were original matter. This is strange of the Ovens & Murray as the Lecture was published in its own columns.'

[n/a] : Cornhill

'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away the time. I was very much amused by a skit in The Australasian by "Hans Beste" called "Lothau", a satire upon "Lothair", Disreali's last work. "Lothau" is a capital burlesque upon Lothair & in a couple of columns of newspaper type takes off all the leading incidents of the novel in a most amusing manner.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Castieau Print: Unknown

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

[n/a] : [unknown]

'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : [unknown]

'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau Print: Book, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Punch

'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated & Papers'

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

[n/a] : Saturday Review

'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article in one of the numbers on the republication of Mrs Aphra Behn's Dramas & Novels. The writer truly said that if this class of disgusting literature could be got up in expensive bindings for the rich the law would be no more outraged by Penny Editions for the crowd & if not put down in the first case the town might be reasonably expected soon to abound in literary filth till lately all but ...'

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

[n/a] : Leader

'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each copy of the paper. The likeness was a very good one & I bought it for the sake of "Auld lang syne" but why "John" should have received such public notice I can scarcely understand. He is an enterprising man & may be a "successful colonist" but few people know him & comparatively few have ever heard of him. The whole thing smacks rather much of the advt. & I expect a pretty large share of this week's Leader will be purchased by "John Wallace".'

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

[n/a] : Chatterbox

'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)

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

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)

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

[n/a] : Bible (New Testament)

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

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Evening Herald

'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is Attorney General so Harriette's present home will be a house of importance. The Australasian of to-day contained a panegyric of Mr Caldwell the Keeper of the Dunedin Gaol. He has issued a Report that his Gaol is more than self supporting & the paper takes him at his own estimate.'

'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'

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

[n/a] : Family Herald

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'

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

[n/a] : Public Opinion

'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in "Public Opinion", one especially which lamented the decadence of "the Turf" from the want of honor among the owners of horses. Horses said the writer now win if it suits their owners' pockets to let them do so, the Derby it is predicted will soon be shorn of all the national importance once attached to it & will soon be the ordinary common place affair that other races have become.'

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

[prisoner] : [letter]

'I was much amused by one prisoner's letter that in the course of Duty I read to-day. The prisoner is in Gaol for beating his wife & excused himself in this fashion.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Manuscript: Letter

Peter Parley [pseud.] : [unknown]

'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my last year's Diary.'

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

[unknown] : [Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]

'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'

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

[n/a] : Telegraph

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

[n/a] : The Age

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.'

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

[unknown] : [drama]

'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoked several pipes & then went to bed'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church of England Bishop "on the Bible". His Lordship treated the Bible as a historical record & urged that without attributing to it its holy character there was ample evidence of [its faithfulness?] handed down from Age to Age. The Bishop treated his subject altogether in a most liberal spirit & the Lecture will when published have no doubt a large circulation.'

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

[unknown] : [stories]

'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from the Merchant of Venice when Mr Henry Smith of the Argus called to see me'

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

[n/a] : The Graphic

'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately arrived by the mail. The Graphic had a fine coloured engraving of the monument recently erected in Hyde Park to the memory of the Prince Albert of Exhibition renown. The monument seems one worthy of the Queen who has erected it & of the noble man whose memory it celebrates. Was home at about nine o'clock.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser

'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechworth in connection with the Victorian Exhibition to be opened at Melbourne.'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'

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

[n/a] : The Age

'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'

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

[unknown] : [stories]

'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'

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

[n/a] : Australasian

'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.'

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

[n/a] : Arabian Nights, The

'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed'

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

[n/a] : Argus

'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great disaster" & purported to be a report of the destruction occasioned to the City & inhabitants of Melbourne through the Powder Magazine in the Royal Park being blown up'

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

[unknown] : [prison report]

'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'

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

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

[n/a] : Argus

'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that it would appear from the conduct of the House as if the Members of it were anxiously striving to make it appear contemptible.'

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

[n/a] : [unknown - newspaper]

'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'

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

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

[n/a] : The North Briton

'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludgate Street, hard by Child's. I have it now sent to me regularly by the Penny Post, and I read it with vast relish. There is a poignant acrimony in it that is very relishing. Noble also sends me from time to time a fresh supply of novels from his circulating library, so that I am very well provided with entertainment'

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

[unknown] : [novels]

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[unknown] : [sermon]

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[n/a] : Catechism

'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book

[unknown] : Diet of the Soul

'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and walkinge tell supper'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and walkinge tell supper'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of the people in the church to Mr Hoby, and then we went to church'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book

[unknown] : [a book of the pews in the church]

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Manuscript: Codex

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [from] Sylvie and Bruno

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : 'Jabberwocky' [from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There]

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [the Mock Turtle's Story from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [from] Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : [the Mad Tea Party, from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [notice]

'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do the Japanese sentries. If internees do not bow to Indian policemen sentries, they will be severely punished". Bow-wow."

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper

anon [Traditional] : The Old and Young Courtier

From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'These very pretty rhymes were written in the times of Elizabeth and James!!'. Follows a transcription of 'The Old Courtier', beginning 'An old song made by an aged fate,/ Of an old worshipful Gentleman that had a great estate...' and 'The Young Courtier', beginning 'Like a flourishing young gallant, newly come to his land'.

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group:

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

[unknown] : [ballads]

'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share in the Scottish Renaissance perhaps I'll justify my parasitism yet.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible

'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob and the stealing of Esau's birthright - she suddenly looked up and said in a pleasantly surprised voice: - "Why, the Bible's just as good as a story book"'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Unknown

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a literary reputation is so easily won here.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Unknown

Edmund Blunden [ed] : An Anthology of War Poems

'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put together - or nearly so. Branford's sonnets are conspicuous and Sassoon's work distinctive, but Owen has not only Branford's "high seriousness" and Sasoon's objectivity but also a sure craftsmanship - he is always the artist in full control of his medium. Beside his work, Sassoon's sounds almost hysterical and Blunden's slightly artificial. After laying down this book I realised for the first time that, notwithstanding the large company of our war poets, our really fine war poems are very few in number.'

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

[n/a] : Glasgow Evening News

'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overpraised - but some truth too in it: certainly a good send-off to the verse.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : New Britain

'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" - I felt as if in my sonnet, "To Marx", I had put Murray's prose into verse. Both the article and the sonnet must have been written practically at the same time.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Serial / periodical

Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] : Red Scotland

'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and read part of his "Red Scotland", which sounded quite convincing. As he read, he supported himself at an angle over my table, the angle increased with the reading until he was literally dropping cigarette ash and dialectical materialism all about me. I thought it might relieve the congestion if he removed his plaid - but discovered that it was part of the regalia.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Murray Grieve Manuscript: Unknown

Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] : Scots Unbound

'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; why must Grieve so often use his verse as a shop-window for displaying curiosities of erudition?'

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

[unknown] : Edward

'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as the form of the verses in itself reveals.'

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

George Burnett [ed] : Book of Scottish Verse

'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish poets there are of the latter part of last century and the beginning of this who are remembered in the one or two poems. How circumscribed the themes; how limited the vocabulary; yet within their narrow field they were assured of the usage of their speech'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xxii, 47. 2nd Kings iii, 9, viii, 20, xiv, 7. conf. 2 Ch. xxv. Isaiah xi, 14, xxi, 12. I Ch. xviii, 12. 2 Ch. xx, 10. Is. lxiii, 1, conf. Jerem. xlix, 7, 13, xxv, 21, 23. Lament iv, 21. Ezek. xxv, 8, 12, xxxv, 5. Amos i, II, 12, ii, I. Obediah all.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)

'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none."'

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

[unknown] : [chemistry]

'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'

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

[unknown] : [Italian]

'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'

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

[unknown] : [Italian]

'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'

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

[unknown] : [Greek]

'read some Greek'

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

E.V. Rippingille [ed.] : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine

'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'

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

E.V. Rippingille [ed.] : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine

'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'

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

[unknown] : Art Union

'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'

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

[unknown] : Witness

'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'

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

Edmund Spenser [?] : [unknown]

'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'

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

Richard Hooker [?] : [unknown]

'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'

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

[unknown] : Guardian

'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of the "Guardian", wherein I was much pleased first by that soliloquy attributed to Alcibiades, of which I would fain see the original, and again by the conclusion'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contrariety of God to evil is expressed as regards his three attributes of wisdom, truth and love...'

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

[unknown] : Guardian

'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present."'

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

[unknown] : Guardian

'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'

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

[unknown] : Guardian

'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our lives, and conf. Dante, "Inferno" VII. 75-80.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too important.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Acts)

'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after labouring and preaching all night, seek this retirement in the day, and walk alone across the country at least 25 miles to Assos. Query: what kind of scenery on this journey?'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Revelations)

'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System of the world as the Mystery of God, in Chap. X. 7, compared with Hebrews XI. 6, which chapter I read this morning in our usual course. Theme enough for the day's course.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. Consider also the beautiful 17th verse of the 46th chapter.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, respecting Infant Regeneration by Baptism.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Proverbs)

'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures', showing that we must indeed do this in order to understand at all, and how few do it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II. 1, etc, while in David's mouth indeed meant the Gentiles, was intended to signify for us, the world in general'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)

'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to the marginal readings and interpretations of names than I have attempted yet'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in marginal reading.'

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

[n/a] : Christian Year

'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I had never read before.'

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

[unknown] : Journal pour tous

'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'

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

[n/a] : Morning Post

'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of Cheltenham".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : The Times

'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'

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

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read only Geology'

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

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'

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

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read geology'

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'

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

[unknown] : [life of Lord Byron]

'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'

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

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'

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

[unknown] : [history]

'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'

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

[unknown] : [poems]

'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[unknown] : [history]

'Read of Empress Theodora'

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

[unknown] : [history]

'read economy of 12th century'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.

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

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.

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

[n/a] : Bible

'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)

'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Tobit)

'Opened 3rd of Tobit'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'

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

[n/a] : New Testament

'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father."'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'

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

[n/a] : Fortnightly Review

'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (John)

'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'

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

[n/a] : [advertisement]

'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Advertisement

[n/a] : Bible (Luke)

'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)

'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'

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

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]

'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late sorrow'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read Rouen missal with advantage'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'

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

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]

'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Tancred

'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more than half the preface" to his lectures, he found time to send home a long letter'

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

[n/a] : Psalms

'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already occured to me and was arranged with General Bruce, that our service at Thebes should be in some tomb or temple. Accordingly I chose today a corner in the Great Hall of Karnak, read the Psalms of the day (Mar 16), and preached on the two verses about Egypt which they contain. It was, I must say, a striking scene. In the furtherest aisles of that vast Cathedral were herded together the horses, dromedaries, asses, and their attendants. In the shade of the two gigantic pillars, seated on a mass of broken stones, were ourselves, two or three stray travellers, and the servants in the background. The Prince expressed great pleasure at the sermon, and begged to have a copy of it. It was on the good and evil of the old Egyptian religion.'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Glad to get back to my Testament'

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

[n/a] : [Biblical verse]

'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : [Biblical verses]

'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : [Biblical verses]

'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible

'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'

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

[unknown] : [Moschele's life]

'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'

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

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really "that's me"!'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Matthew)

'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Daniel)

'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequence, however, whether it is desolate or desolator in last verse'

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

[unknown] : Ariadne

'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Romans)

'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misleads us.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)

'Read Ezekiel 34th'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)

'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)

'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my first text at I Corinthians VII. 1. And yet the second verse directly reverses the nobleness of all youthful thought'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Job)

'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all the rest with comfort'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'

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

[n/a] : Bible

'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)

Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not." II Cor. iv.'

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

[n/a] : World

'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, "La petite Comtesse", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Psalter

'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex

[unknown] : [unknown]

'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'

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

[unknown] : Roma Sotternea

'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'

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

[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette

'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[unknown] : Aladdin

'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Chronicles)

'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his heart was lifted up - nor why at first he was so helped.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Deuteronomy)

'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'

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

[n/a] : Bible (Proverbs)

'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'

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

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

[n/a] : Bible (Peter)

'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'

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

[unknown] : [French novel]

'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'

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

George Eliot [pseud.] : Romola

'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'

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

George Eliot [pseud.] : Romola

'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Angus [?] Print: Book

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Love of a Nation

'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The Pleasure of Winter Bathing On Washing Seldom & then not much Poetry'.

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Tiger & the Lady, The

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Building

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Quaker Stories

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Henry Lawrence

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Pleasure of Winter Bathing, The

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : On Washing Seldom & then not much

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Poetry

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Theory of Language

'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different authors entitled A Vignette of Local History - Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century, The Court of Appeal & A Feat of Journalism. All proved of an interesting character & some provoked discussion. Much entertainment arose at the end in guessing at the authorship.'

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Further East

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Perpetual Motion

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Court of Appeal, The

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : Feat of Journalism, A

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

[members of the XII Book Club] : [two essays entitled 'A Vignette of Local History']

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]

'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were then given. viz C.I. Evans, E.E. Unwin, W.S. Rowntree, E.A. Smith, H.R. Smith & A. Rawlings. Mrs Robson, E.E. Unwin, & Kathleen Rawlings contributed songs & Margery Rawlings read Evelyn Hope'.

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Rowntree Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [essay on Browning]

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

[members of XII Book Club] : [short stories]

'The rest of the evening was devoted to the reading of a number of short stories which were more or less anonymous. Most of the stories were seasonal in that they dealt with some ghostly episode.'

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :

'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak gently. Mary Hayward. Readings by S.A. Reynolds, C.E. Stansfield, The Rawlings & Unwin families.'

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] :

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

[Members of XII Book Club] : [anonymous essays]

'Then followed the reading of 7 essays. They were supposed to be anonymous & were certainly read withot any author's name being attached but the inquisitive by internal or external evidence began to sort them out & at the end of the meeting the identity of the various writers was disclosed' [the essays are then discussed, but without mention of authors or readers]

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Members of XII book Club Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII book Club] : [open letter to the XII Book Club]

'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed until later in the evening.' [the letter was about the Club's relationship with the wider Quaker community]

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

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [paper entitled 'An English Lumber Camp']

'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Edwards Manuscript: Unknown

[a member of the XII Book Club] : [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival']

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Ann Smith Manuscript: Unknown

Geoffrey Young [?] : 'Mountain Playmates'

'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated snapshots illustrating this reading & his own climb of the same mountain. After supper R.B. Graham gave a general chat on Mountaineering with views. A passage by Whymper on accidents was summarised by A. Rawlings who then read Whymper's account of an extraordinary accident he himself sustained. To conclude the Secretary read a parody of Wadsworth [Wordsworth?] 'We are Seven' composed by H.M. Wallis on climbing at Arolla'.

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

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] :

'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'

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

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minister

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham and Francis Pollard Print: Book

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Series of Character Sketches

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

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Revolution in Tanner's Lane, The

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

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Catharine Furze

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

Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Mark Rutherford's Deliverance

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

[anon. member of XII Book Club] : Scandalous Affair, A

'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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Zadig

'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale from Zadig. After refreshments F. E. Pollard gave us an idea of Voltaire's thought & influence Mrs Evans read from Letters From England & Mrs T. C. Eliott gave us some conception of his place in French literature some discussion closing an interesting evening.'

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

Voltaire [pseud.] : Letters on England

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

Voltaire [pseud.] :

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

Voltaire [pseud.] :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: C. Elliott Print: Book

Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"] : An Airman's Outings

'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.'

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

John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin] : Kimono

'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he given you a copy?'

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

Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt'] : I Say

'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Newspaper

Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle] : Vie de Napoléon

'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not until June 1920 that he eventually started to write "Suspense", and early in 1921 he spent two months in Corsica to saturate himself in Napoleonic atmosphere, revive memories of harbours and sailors and do further background reading, as the list of books borrowed from the Ajaccio library, recorded by Jean-Aubry, indicates.' [see note 118, p.316]

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

George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt] : The Ascending Effort

'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But] you will admit that Bourne's writing in its slightly grotesque heaviness made it very difficult to read the whole book in a spirit of impartiality[...].'

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

Lewis Carroll [pseud.] : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass

'He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading "The Nonsense Songs and Stories" and he was also very fond of the Lewis Carroll books. The verses in these seemed to have a particular attraction for him and he would read them through aloud several times.'

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

Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope

Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson Print: Book

Saki [pseud.] : Beasts and Super-Beasts

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro

8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.

9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].

10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Listings for Author:

[

Click here to select all entries:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper

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

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book

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

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book

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

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

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

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Tellar Print: Unknown

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

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book

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

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

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

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

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Print: Unknown

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant Print: Unknown

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

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

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

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

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher Print: Serial / periodical

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

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott Print: Serial / periodical

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

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

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith Print: Book

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

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

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes

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

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

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

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

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Newspaper

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

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

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

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

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Manuscript: Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Unknown

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Serial / periodical

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

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Faith Gray Print: Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book