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Aeschylus :

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

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

Sophocles : unknown

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

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

Euripides :

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

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

Francis Lathom : Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incidents in Real Life

'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.'

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

William Cowper : unknown

'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.'

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

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less difficulty in getting through him than in reading Fielding, and that as a matter of taste I actually prefer Lovelace to Tom Jones! I suppose that is one of the differences between men and women which even Ladies' Colleges will not set to rights.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Edward Jenkins : Ginx's Baby

'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensely the "Peasant Life".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

unknown : Peasant Life

'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensely the "Peasant Life".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

George Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine and powerful. Is it Laurence Oliphant? I can't think of anybody else with such a power of realism and wonderful command of the subject. It is vivid as Defoe.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Collins : unknown

'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Anthony Trollope : Caesar

'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Alexander William Kinglake : Eothen

'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember being very much amused by the opening out of two old neighbours of mine at Ealing, after a discussion of his first volume. In the enthusiasm created by it one of them, an old Peninsular officer, instructed me carefully how to make a pontoon bridge and get my (!) troops over it; while the other, Admiral Collinson, burst forth into naval experiences.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Major Lockhart : [verses]

'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant

Alexander Allardyce : City of Sunshine

'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture of an old Mohammedan officer in the old sepoy army. It is a very clever book. I don't know if it would interest you, who have the real thing under your eyes, as much as it interests us, or I would put it into the next box that is sent.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : [novels]

'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine

'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complicated my other businesses, and I did not even read the article till somewhat late in the month. I am now overwhelmed by Mr Shand's (it is Mr Shand?) civilities in the present number.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: Times, The

'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa Harlowe

At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret 'Peggy' Turner Print: Book

Pindar : unknown

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

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

Callimachus : unknown

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

Apollonius Rhodius : unknown

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

Quintus Calaber : unknown

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

Theocritus : unknown

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

Herodotus : unknown

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

Thucydides : unknown

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

Xenophon : unknown

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

Plato : unknown

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

Aristotle : Politics

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

Aristotle : Organon

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

Plutarch : Lives

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

Lucian : unknown

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

Athenaeus : unknown

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

Plautus : unknown

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

Plautus : unknown

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

Aeschylus : unknown

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

Sophocles : unknown

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

Pindar : unknown

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

Theocritus : unknown

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

Terence : unknown

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

Lucretius : unknown

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

Catullus : unknown

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

Albius Tibullus : unknown

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

Sextus Propertius : unknown

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

Lucan : unknown

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

Silius Italicus : unknown

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

Livy : unknown

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

Velleius Paterculus : unknown

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

Sallust : unknown

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

Caesar : unknown

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

Cicero : unknown

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

Aristophanes : unknown

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

Monk : Biography of Richard Bentley

'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the character. Energy, acuteness, tyranny, and audacity in every line of the face." Those words are writen above the portrait of Richard Bentley, in Bishop Monk's biography of that famous writer.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Theocritus : Seventh Idyll

' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich profusion of rustic imagery about it which I find nowhere else. It opens a scene of rural plenty and comfort which quite fills the imagination, - flowers, fruits, leaves, fountains, soft goatskins, old wine, singing birds, joyous friendly companions. The whole has an air of reality which is more interesting than the conventional world which Virgil has placed in Arcadia". So Macaulay characterises the Seventh Idyll of Theocritus.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Jonson : The Alchemist

'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great art,' even to his accomplice. As Hume says, roguery and enthusiasm run into each other. I admire this play very much. The plot would have been more agreeable, and more rational, if Surly had married the widow whose honor he has preserved. Lovewit is as contemptible as Subtle himself. The whole of the trick about the Queen of Fairy is improbable in the highest degree. But, after all, the play is as good as any in our language out of Shakespeare."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Catiline

'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The characters are certainly discriminated, but with no delicacy. Jonson makes Cethegus a mere vulgar ruffian. He quite fogets that all the conspirators were gentlemen, noblemen, politicians, probably scholars. He has seized only the coarsest peculiarities of character. As to the conduct of the piece, nothing can be worse than the long debates and narratives which make up half of it.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock

'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is very extravagant and foolish. It is the blemish of a poem which, but for this blemish, would be as near perfection in its own class as any work in the world." '

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Horace : Satires

'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, far more variety, more sentiment, more thought. But that to which Horace chiefly owes his reputation, is his perfect good sense and self-knowledge, in whcih he exceeded all men."'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Paul Louis Courier : Le Simple Discours

[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Paul Louis Courier : Le Simple Discours

'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, with the punkah swinging overhead, with as much enjoyment as ever Charles James Fox read the romances of Voltaire to his wife in the garden at St. Anne's Hill, though with a less irreproachable accent.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay

F.D. Hemans : The Homes of England

'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Browne

F.D. Hemans : Evening Prayer at a Girl's School

'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Browne

F.D. Hemans : The Wings of the Dove

'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text]

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Browne

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

completed the perusal of the firstvolume of Perry's French Revolution, which requires to be read with care, the author a Democratic writer too often attempts to justify principles in themselves unjustifiable

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Continued the perusal of the 2nd volume which opens a display of the insubordination & cruelty of the French populace

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTION

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Continue the perusal of Perry's French Revolution, which like the murmurings heard at the foot of the crater become more dreadful as we approach to its summit

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Still engaged in the perusal of Perry's French Revolution together with a few periodical publications by way of a change of its summit

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Sampson Perry : An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution

Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

William Cowper :

Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Thomas James Mathias : The Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical Poem

Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

: Monthly Magazine

Engaged in a 2nd perusal of The Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Serial / periodical

Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-Holstein : Germany

Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Charles Rollin : Ancient History of the Egyptians

Continue the perusal of Rollins Ancient History- this work reflects great light upon the sacred volume.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life of Wesley

Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.G. Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

David Lewis : Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th

Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope. Cost 5s. Mother paid half of that... Read Philip of Macedon after supper. Does not read as well as I expected.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil and

After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Richard Baker : A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time

No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's Chronicles

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : A Tale of A Tub

Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Richard Baker : A Chronicle of the Kings of England

I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Fowler Haywood : The Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded...

Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Haywood : Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on t

Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old story.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love

Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Like a black desart at th' approach of night I'll lay me down and stray no further on' (All for Love)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love

"Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Thomas Killigrew : Chit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre

'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or never efface the first stains'. (Chit-Chat)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

James Shirley : The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie...

Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures. I think he is a better orator than casuist: his argument is not so clear a stile.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

Read after supper the contempt of the clergy.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Charles Sedley : The Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two Volumes

Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Nathaniel Lee : Constantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works...

'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Nathaniel Lee : Caesar Borgia. A Tragedy

Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his Eyes their Wildness lose And vows the keepers his wrong'd sense abuse. But if you hitt the cause that hurts his Brain Then his Teeth gnash; he foams; he Shakes his Chain, His Eyeballs roll, and he is madagain'. (Lee, 'Caesar Borgia')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Aphra Behn : All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious

Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt].

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Eachard; a book with much truth and much witt, but too ludicrase I think for the subject. It belongs to our [Quaker] Landlady.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Eachard : The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl

After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Church of England burial service

Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending their Band - the Commodore was obliged to read the Burial Service as there was no Clergyman out here

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : A Tale of A Tub

Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Thomas Wotton : The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and His

Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Saviles (in a book of the Baronets lately come out), with the account Brother sent to be inserted.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt

Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Charles Beckingham : The Life of Mr Richard Savage

Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

(Sir) John Denham : The Sophy OR Poems and Translations

Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Martin Luther :

None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Sturmy : Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy.

Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Tatler

Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

(Sir) John Vanbrugh : A Journey to London, being part of a comedy...

Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by Cibber, vastly mended by him I think.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Gay : The Beggar's Opera

Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Gay : The Beggars Opera

Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o

Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extreordinary stile. Poeticall, exceeding entertaining.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o

Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back with Aunt near 10.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Gay : The Beggar's Opera

Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 were here, and Mrs D'Enly alone in Mother's room, I read 'The Beggar's Opera' to them in intervals before and after supper.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Tatler

Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

: Tatler

Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

(Sir) Richard Steele : The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy.

Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Conscious Lovers'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : The Universal Passion

Read the 'Universal Passion'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Young : The Universal Passion

Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. He is grown a favouritt Author of mine. I am not content with once reading it, but design to bye it.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted st

Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Hang'd. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

'B.L' OR 'A Lady' : Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had m

Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Haywood : The British Recluse; Or the Secret History of Cleo

Read 'The British Recluse'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Essay on the Fates of Clergymen

[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I have been more fortunate or prudent than Swift or Eugenio.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Madame de Gomez : La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days

Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.

Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.

Read 'The Prude'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Vindication

Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame is the motive, it is the reward, of our labours: nor can I easily comprehend how it is possible that we should remain cold and indifferent with regard to the attempts which are made to deprive us of the most valuable object of our possessions, or at least, of our hopes.' Macaulay writes: 'But what if you are confident that these attempts will be vain, and that your book will fix its own place?'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.

Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jean Regnauld de Segrais : Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F

Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate".

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Jean Regnauld de Segrais : Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F

Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Conyers Middleton : Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church

[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I do not at all admire this letter. Indeed Middleton should have counted the cost before he took his part. He never appears to so little advantage as when he complains in this way of the calumnies and invectives of the orthodox.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

: [A Novell] OR [A Novel]

Read a Novell after supper. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: 'Brutus' OR 'A Tragedy'

Slept in the chair - knew not what to do with myself. Read a New Tragidy in Maniscript that has not been acted; the story of the first Brutus that putt his 2 sons to death.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Manuscript: Codex

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scene, whatever the French critics may say. It at once puts us thoroughly in possession of the state of the two families.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is not what would be commonly called fine; but I would give any six plays of Rowe for it.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo be? / Came he not home to- night?' in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is the free conversation of lively, high-spirited young gentlemen.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is beyond the reach of anybody but Shakespeare.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels'in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is as fine an instance of presentiment as I remember in poetry. It throws a sadness over all the gaiety that follows, and prepares us for the catastrophe.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in which Juliet at once withdraws her whole confidence from the nurse without disclosing her feelings'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures of

Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil...

'Life of Count De Venivill' after supper. Bed near 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Lawrence, Macaulay remarks on the wonderful genius with which the poet delineates a timid, delicate girl of fourteen excited and exalted to an act of desperate courage.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

'Young Nobleman' : Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr

Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

'Young Nobleman' : Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr

Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens...

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Elijah Fenton : Mariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal...

'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: As the vex'd oceean [sic] working in a storm Off brings to light the wrecks which long lay calm, In the dark bosom of the secret deep. ('Mariamne')

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Sturmy : Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy...

Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Fowler Haywood : The City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel.

After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...

Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...

Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Penelope Aubin : The Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures of

Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Eliza Fowler Haywood : The Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...A

News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Alain Rene Le Sage : The History and Adventures of Gil Blas...

Made an end of 'Gil Blas'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Philip Massinger : The Very Woman

Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Nicholas Rowe : The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy...

I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in it. - Rows Ambitious Stepmother

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers : The Rehearsal

Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers : The Rehearsal

Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..

Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..

Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

John Dryden : All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..

Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus

Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

: Tatler

Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Thomas Jevon : The Devil of a Wife

Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

Abraham Cowley : The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles

Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George Stanhope : Twelve Sermons

Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book

George MacDonald : David Elginbrod

[Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his first successful book, "David Elginbrod", had been published many years before by Messrs Hurst & Blackett, at Mrs Oliphant's warm recommendation. She always spoke of it as a work of genius, and quoted it as one of the instances of publishers' blunders, for when the MS. came to her it came enveloped in wrappings that showed how many refusals it had already suffered.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Manuscript: MS of a book

John Morley : Life of George Eliot

'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ever saw. The personality of the great writer is as yet very confusing to me in the extreme flatness of the picture. I don't mean by flatness dulness [sic], though there is something of that, but only that it is like mural paintings or sculpture in very low relief. I have just run over your reviewer's article and think it very good.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Review of the Life of George Eliot

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Laurence Oliphant : Land of Gilead, The

'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I am making the most prodigious effort to understand his book, but I have to catch hold of the furniture after a few pages to keep myself from turning round and round, and yet the absorption of such a man of the world as he is in a religious idea has something very fine in it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Athenaeum

'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine

'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine

'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article on Hayward is very good. Sir Edward Hamley, I think?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

A.K.H. Boyd : Taking in Sail

'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued thoughts that come to us with the decline of the day.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Unknown

J.M. Barrie : Auld Licht Idylls

'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I think exceedingly clever. Indeed there seems to me genius in them, though the Scotch is, as you say, much too provincial.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine

I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, I think, according to these specimens, in poetry.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

: [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria]

I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chalmers's great experiment in Glasgow, which I think a very fine thing indeed, and which has fallen out of recollection.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper, Unknown

A.P. Stanley : A Selection from the writings of Dean Stanley

I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Blackwood's Magazine

I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year. It has been more full of interesting articles, and altogether stronger than for a long time before.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Andrew Lang : Life of Lockhart

Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' personalities.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book

Marie Corelli :

I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the way in the only book of hers I can read, seems to be founded upon Bulwer

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Warburton proposed to read 'hymn' for 'him'; - the most ludicrous emendation ever suggested".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, of fancy, as it is, - seems to me, like much of this play, to be not in Shakspeare's [sic] very best manner. It is stuck on like one of Horace's 'purple patches'. It does not seem to spring naturally out of the conversation. This is a fault which, in his finest works, Shakspeare [sic] never commits."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If this had been in Cibber, Cibber would never have heard the last of it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Here begins a noble series of scenes. I know nothing grander than the way in which Romeo hears the news. It moves me even more than Lear's agonies."

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

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of Romeo is sublime beyond expression; and the manner in which he is softened into tenderness when he sees the body of Juliet is perhaps the most affecting touch in all poetry."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated" : "Sweet writing".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to me to be a clumsy addition to the plot".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of Hamlet during the earlier part of this scene is very fine, but not equal to the silence of Prometheus and Cassandra in the Prometheus and Agammemnon of Aeschylus."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the only thing deserving of much admiration in the speech is the manner in which it is raised above the ordinary diction which surrounds it. It is poetry within poetry, - a play within a play. It was therefore proper to make its language bear the same relation to the language, in which Hamlet and Horatio talk, which the language of Hamlet and Horatio bears to the common style of conversation among gentlemen. This is a sufficient defence of the style, which is undoubtedly in itself far too turgid for dramatic, or even for lyric, composition."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specimen of Hamlet's peculiar character. His intellect is out of all proportion to his will or his passions. Under the most exciting circumstances, while expecting every moment to see the ghost of his father rise before him, he goes on discussing questions of morals, manners, or politics, as if he were in the schools of Wittenberg."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,/ And could of men distinguish, her election/ Hath sealed thee for herself, - ' : "An exquisitely beautiful scene. It always moved me more than any other in the play. There is something very striking in the way in which Hamlet, a man of a gentle nature, quick in speculation, morbidly sluggish in action, unfit to struggle with the real evils of life, and finding himself plunged into the midst of them, - delights to repose on the strong mind of a man who had been severely tried, and who had learned stoicism from experience. There is wonderful truth in this."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a most admirable scene. The fooling of Osric is nothing; but it is most striking to see how completely Hamlet forgets his father, his mistress, the terrible duty imposed upon him, the imminent danger which he has to run, as soon as a subject of observation comes before him; - as soon as a good butt is offered to his wit."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and sweat under a weary life'. Johnson wrote, "All the old copies have to 'grunt and sweat'. It is undoubtedly the true reading, but can scarcely be borne by modern ears." Macaulay writes: "We want Shakespeare, not your fine modern English."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often hit off such corrections, he would be entitled to the first place among critics."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncle in the act of praying. Johnson comments that the speech in which, "not content with taking blood for blood, he contrived damnation for his enemy, was too horrible to be read or uttered." Macaulay responds: "Johnson does not understand the character. Hamlet is irresolute; and he makes the first excuse that suggests itself for not striking. If he had met the King drunk, he would have refrained from avenging himself lest he should kill both soul and body."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who has been praised for bluntness: "Excellent! It is worth while to compare these moral speeches of Shakspeare [sic] with those which are so much admired in Euripides. The superiority of Shakspeare's [sic] observations is immense. But the dramatic art with which they are introduced, - always in the right place, - always from the right person, - is still more admirable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell!' : "This last struggle between rage and tenderness is, I think, unequalled in poetry."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...' : "Where is there anything like this in the world"?

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot but feel that the whole scene is very unnatural. He took it, to be sure, from an old story. What miracles his genius has brought out from materials so unpromising!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fault in the play, to my thinking, that Kent should behave so very insolently in this scene. A man of his rank and sense would have had more self-command and dignity even in his anger. One can hardly blame Cornwall for putting him in the stocks."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under the discipline of severe sorrow, is mot happily marked in several places."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King Lear

Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpleasing character of a story, "in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry." Macaulay responds: "There is nothing like this last scene in the world. Johnson talks nonsense. Torn to pieces as Lear's heart had been, was he to live happily ever after, as the story-books say? Wonderful as the whole play is, this last passage is the triumph of Shakspeare's [sic] genius. Every character is perfectly supported."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nonsense! Had Shakspeare [ sic] no eyes to see the sky with?"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, who remarks that to call a circle an O was a very mean metaphor. Macaulay responds: "Surely, if O were really the usual name of a circle there would be nothing mean in it, any more than in the Delta of the Nile."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hungry lions roar, / And the wolf beholds the moon'. Macaulay writes: "In my opinion, this is one of Warburton's very best corrections."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence': This is Shakspeare's [sic] manly sense and knowledge of the world, introduced with perfect dramatic propriety. How different from Euripides's lectures on such subjects."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath such force and blessed power": "Beautiful and easy beyond expression".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes Fletcher might perhaps have written. The fairy scenes no man but one since the world began could have written."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Gregory : Odes

Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine. He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each. I like the 7th. hymn extremely. A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th. I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps. The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd Print: Book

Synesius : Poems

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd Print: Book

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgrim's Progress and a translation of Klopstock's Messiah'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: mother of Joseph Wright Print: Book

: New Testament

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Friedrich Klopstock : Messiah

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: mother of Joseph Wright Print: Book

: Daily Advertiser

Witness statement in trial for for theft: George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I read it in the 'Daily Advertiser', only in the paper it is said to be marked with letters on the handle, but the letters on the belly of the cup..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Martin Print: Newspaper

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock : [odes]

"On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted the latin measures' (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 1, p.91).

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Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Crocket: "I keep Pan's Coffee-house in Castle-street; on the 9th of November last, the prisoner came into my house, between six and seven in the evening, and called for a glass of brandy and water; I served him with it; he staid about a quarter of an hour reading a newspaper; after he had read the paper he asked for a bason of soup;..."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Watson Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for burglary: 2 statements -that George Todd was apprehended in a public house, reading a newspaper at the time

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Todd Print: Newspaper

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witness statement in trial for theft: George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank my beer -I looked at the newspaper. I was not there above a quarter of an hour"

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

William Wordsworth : [poems]

William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former grocer on his first day in the new job: 'At Lancaster I happened to mention Grasmere in the hearing of one of the Passengers, who asked me immediately if one Wordsworth did not live there. I answered, "Yes." - "He has written," said he, "some very beautiful Poems; The Critics do indeed cry out against them, and condemn them as over simple, but for my part I read them with great pleasure, they are natural and true." - This man was also a Grocer.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [a grocer] Anon

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar] "These two or three pages are worth the whole French drama ten times over."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch's narrative. But the working up of Brutus by Cassius, the meeting of the conspirators, the stirring of the mob by Antony, and (above all,) the dispute and reconciliation of the two generals, are things far beyond the reach of any other poet that ever lived."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nights" in Julius Caesar] "Plutarch's hint is admirably expanded here".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who studied Dickens in the Whitechapel Public Library and read aloud from Man and Superman. Another friend - the son of a widowed mother, who left school at fourteen - exposed him to Egyptology, Greek architecture, Scott, Smollett, the British Musuem and Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: a revolutionary Russian rag merchant Print: Book

Samuel Smiles : Self Help

'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford Print: Book

Samuel Smiles : Self Help

'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gregory only had a few school prizes - Jack and the Ostrich, a children's story; The Crucifixion of Philip Strong, a gripping tale of labor unrest; and the verses of Cornish poet, John Harries - and the family read a weekly serial, Strongdold the Gladiator. Having left school at twelve to work in the mines, Gregory had no access to serious reading matter until mid-adolescence, when a clerk introduced him to Self-Help. That book, he recalled in old age, "has lived with me, and in me, for more than sixty years... I was impressed by its quality for I had never touched a book of such high quality; and the impression deepened and became vivid as I took it home, read the stories of men who had helped themselves, struggled against enormous difficulties, suffered privations...but went on to rise phoenix-like from the ruins of their plans... I realised that my lack of education was not decisive of what I might become, so I commenced to reach out into the future".'

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

John Harries :

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: Jack and The Ostrich

'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gregory only had a few school prizes - Jack and the Ostrich, a children's story; The Crucifixion of Philip Strong, a gripping tale of labor unrest; and the verses of Cornish poet, John Harries - and the family read a weekly serial, Strongdold the Gladiator. Having left school at twelve to work in the mines, Gregory had no access to serious reading matter until mid-adolescence, when a clerk introduced him to Self-Help. That book, he recalled in old age, "has lived with me, and in me, for more than sixty years... I was impressed by its quality for I had never touched a book of such high quality; and the impression deepened and became vivid as I took it home, read the stories of men who had helped themselves, struggled against enormous difficulties, suffered privations...but went on to rise phoenix-like from the ruins of their plans... I realised that my lack of education was not decisive of what I might become, so I commenced to reach out into the future".'

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

Charles Monroe Sheldon : The Crucifixion of Philip Strong

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

: Strongdold the Gladiator

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

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Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yesterday and John and A had a happy day of play and reading; for Algernon is very good in reading to John.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Montagu

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

Statement of a juvenile offender: "I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only been in Liverpool two days. I was taken up for attempting to pick pockets... Theatres are very exciting. I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed; I have read his history; I have seen many boys buy his history; I borrowed mine from another boy."

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

: Child's First Book

Report of prison chaplain on the progress of prisoner: "From his first arrival in gaol, he had been attended by the schoolmaster; and one day, when I examined his progress in learning to read, I was surprised and delighted to find that he had not only acquired the mechanical ability to spell and read words of one syllable, but, which was of much more consequence, that he was applying the simple lessons in the 'Child's First Book' to the very best purpose. The great truths contained in the little words of that book were finding their way into his mind..."

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

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader that Cleopatra's story of the salt fish on Antony's hook was taken from North's Plutarch]: "Yes, but how happily introduced, and with what skill and spirit worked up by Shakespeare!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Absurd! Who knows anything about the usages of the Senate, and the privileges of the Tribunes, in Coriolanus's time?"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular Government]: "Well! but there had certainly been elective magistracies in Rome before the expulsion of the kings, and there might have been canvassing. Shakspeare [sic] cared so little about historical accuracy that an editor who notices expressions, which really are not grossly inaccurate, is unpardonable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, which suggests that Shakespeare had misread his authorities]: "This undoubtedly was a mistake, and what DOES it matter?"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had thumbed his translation of Plutarch to rags."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Hesiod :

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor, - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Athenaeus :

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cato :

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Livy :

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Sallust :

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Tacitus :

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Aulus Gellius :

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Suetonius :

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Cicero : De Finibus

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Finibus, the Academic Questions, and the Tusculan Disputations."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Academic Questions

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Tusculan Disputations

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Cicero : De Finibus

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, luminous and full of interest; but the Epicurean theory of morals is hardly deserving of refutation."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : De Natura Deorum

[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : De Divinatione

[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument against the credibility of visions and prophecies.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Catiline

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am meant / Catiline: They had lost their science else.']: "The dialogue here is good and natural. but it is strange that so excellent a scholar as Ben Jonson should represent the Augurs as giving any encouragement to Lentulus's dreams. The Augurs were the first nobles of Rome. In this generation Pompey, Hortensius, Cicero, and other men of the same class, belonged to the College."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Ben Cicero : Tusculan Disputations

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles in the Second Book]: "Cicero's best".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Letters

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse, et illos sui', translated as 'I triumph and rejoice that my action should have sustained your approval [...] for there is nothing which I so much covet as that I should be like myself, and they like themselves]: "Noble fellow!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Speeches

[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each successive speech of Cicero form a continuous history of the great orator's public career, and a far from unsympathetic analysis of his mobile, and singularly interesting, character."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Letters to Atticus

Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "Poor fellow! He makes a pitiful figure. But it is impossible not to feel for him. Since I left England I have not despised Cicero and Ovid for their lamentations in exile as much as I did."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Second Philippic

[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all its fame."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Third Philippic

[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier speeches have a freedom and an air of sincerity about them which, in the interval between his Consulship and Caesar's death, I do not find. During that interval he was mixed up with the aristocratical party, and yet afraid of the Triumvirate. When all the great party-leaders were dead, he found himself at the head of the state, and spoke with a boldness and energy which he had not shown since his youthful days."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Cicero : Last Philippic

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, except that I am more disgusted with his conduct after Caesar's death. I really think that he met with little more than his deserts from the Triumvirs. It is quite certain, as Livy says, that he suffered nothing more than he would have inflicted."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodorus and Euthydemus should have been mistaken for wisdom, even by the weakest of mankind. I can hardly help thinking that Plato has overcharged the portrait. But the humour of the dialogue is admirable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"

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Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"

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Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of this solemn ridicule as Plato."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverting than this dialogue. It is not only richly humorous. The characters are most happily sustained and discriminated. The contrast between the youthful petulance of Ctesippus and the sly, sarcastic mock humility of Socrates is admirable."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Euthydemus

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."

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

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine about the community of women and the exposure of children. But nobody, as far as I remember, has done justice to him on one important point. No ancient politician appears to have thought so highly of the capacity of women, and to have been inclined to make them so important."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, even when arguing against it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: "This passage does Plato great honour. Philhellenism is a step towards philanthropy. There is an enlargement of mind in this work which I do not remember to have found in any earlier composition, and in very few ancient works, either earlier or later."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "This is indeed a noble dream. Pity that it should come through the gate of ivory!"

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Plato : Republic

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy superior to this in profundity, ingenuity, and eloquence."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scarcely anywhere so interesting a view of the interior of a Greek house in the most interesting age of Greece."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous patron of learning. What with sophists, what with pretty women, and what with sycophants, he came to the end of a noble fortune."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain that he wants only to get up a row among the sophists."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Protagoras

[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himself. Nothing can be more courteous and generous than his language. Socrates shows abundance of talent and acuteness in this dialogue; but the more I read of his conversation, the less I wonder at the fierce hatred he provoked. He evidently had an ill-natured pleasure in making men, - particularly men famed for wisdom and eloquence, - look like fools." [the comments continue at some length.]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not know whether I shall like it as well now. May 1, 1837."

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages which his wonderful talents, and his command of temper, gave him."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the place of Polus, Socrates would hardly have had so easy a job of it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what terrible, though delicate, ridicule! A bitter fellow, too, with all his suavity."

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Callicles says. He is wrong in not perceiving that the real happiness, not only of the weak many, but of the able few, is promoted by virtue. [...] When I read this dialogue as a lad at college, I wrote a trifling piece for Knight's Magazine, in which some Athenian characters were introduced, I made this Callicles the villain of the drama. I now see that he was merely a fair specimen of the public men of Athens in that age. Although his principles were those of aspiring and voluptuous men in unquiet times, his feelings seem to have been friendly and kind."

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek literature. Plato is a real poet."

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be more afraid of wronging than of being wronged, and that the prime business of every man is, not to seem good, but to be good, in all his private and public dealings" with three pencil lines, and writes]: "This just and noble conclusion atones for much fallacy in the reasoning by which Socrates arrived at it [...] it is impossible not to consider it [the Gorgias] as one of the greatest performances which have descended to us from that wonderful generation."

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more than an untroubled and dreamless sleep]: "Milton thought otherwise" [Macaulay quotes the lines "Sad cure! For who would lose,/Though full of pain, this intellectual being;/ Those thoughts that wander through eternity?"] "I once thought with Milton; but every day brings me nearer and nearer the doctrine here laid down by Socrates."

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

Plato : Gorgias

[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Nothing was ever written, or spoken, approaching in sober sublimity to the latter part of the Apology. It is impossible to read it without feeling one's mind elevated and strengthened."

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

Plato : Crito

[Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socrates; but it is impossible not to admire the wisdom and virtue which it indicates. When we consider the moral state of Greece in his time, and the revolution which he produced in men's notions of good and evil, we must pronounce him one of the greatest men that ever lived."

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

Juvenal :

I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to him my discovery of the magnificent verses in which Juvenal bids observe how the world's two mightiest orators [Cicero and Demosthenes] were brought by their genius and eloquence to a violent and tragic death.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book

John Beaumont : [poems]

'[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor (sir Johns) Poems. the more I read them the more I am pleased, his mind was elevated, pious & pure."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir George Beaumont

Charles Lyell : Principles of Geology

'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, arithmetic, and mining engineering, where he won a prize book of world history and was introduced to Lyell's Principles of Geology. These two volumes taught him to think in evolutionary terms, and he began to read widely on the historicity of religion and the development of capitalism'.

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

: [book of world history]

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

: [the story of Joseph]

'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever such a discovery made before! I actually found out for myself that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books, and from that moment reading became one of the most delightful of my amusements". Once Miller had learned to read Scripture as a story, he soon found similar and equally gripping tales in chapbooks of Jack the Giant Killer, Sinbad the Sailor, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. And then, he recalled, from fairy tales "I passed on, without being conscious of break or line of division, to books on which the learned are content to write commentaries and dissertations, but which I found to be quite as nice children's books as any of the others": Pope's Iliad and Odyssey. "With what power, and at how early an age, true genius impresses!"'

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

: Jack the Giant Killer

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

: Sinbad the Sailor

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

: Beauty and the Beast

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

: Aladdin

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

Homer : the Iliad

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

Homer : The Odyssey

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

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. And from there it was a sort step to Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels'.

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

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

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

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

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

anon : [newspaper]

Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen sloop of war ... The manner I knew that Capt. Hanson was appointed Commander of the ship before mentioned was this[.] I saw it in the public paper.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Newspaper

anon : Morning Post

Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Windsor], and that Ld. C[arlisle] was not present; I however saw his name in the Morning Post, as one of the Knights Companions....'

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

William Cowper : Friendship

In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1803 edition of poem).

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

Various : Monthly Literary Recreations

Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bardship is applauded far beyond my Deserts ... [the] critique pleases me particularly because it is of great great length, and a proper quantum of censure is administered ... though I have written a paper ... which appears in the same work, I am ignorant of every other person concerned in it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

anon : [morning newspaper]

Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long account of Robbery &c. &c. committed on the persons of sundry Majors, Colonels, & Esquires, passing from Lady Clare's to Limerick ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter

: Daily Advertiser

Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods. Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard: Q: "Do you remember that there was a newspaper on the table at tea, and you read it?" A: "Yes, I believe it was the Daily Advertiser -it was the morning paper of the day before."

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

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Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a 'bogus' invoice to the court: Q: "Is the invoice in a business-like form?" A: "Certainly not; it ought to have the name to it. It only says (reads) '50 pieces, 534 yards, 2 pieces of handkerchiefs, 24 yards.'"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Deboos Manuscript: invoice

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Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a letter aloud to the court Deboos: "After reading it, he handed it to me -(reads) 'Mr Sherwin. In consequence of the hurry of business..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Deboos Manuscript: Letter

Robert Charles Dallas : unknown

Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, I shall feel truly gratified in a personal acquaintance with one, whose mind has long been known to me in his Writings.'

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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Herodotus : unknown

Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department, so that few nations exist or have existed with whose records I am not in some degree acquainted from Herodotus down to Gibbon.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: The Times

Witness statements in trial for theft: George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitechapel church; I have kept it thirteen years -I know the prisoner [Albin] well; he used to come often to read the Times newspaper"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Nicholas Benigne Ablin Print: Newspaper

William Harness : unknown

Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositions....'

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

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Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a letter, and told Griffiths of it, he offered to write, and took pen and paper -I told him the persons name and my business, and he completed the letter and read it to me, it contained what I wanted, and answered my purpose very well, it was sent, and I received a very satisfactory answer. I have known him nine years -I have heard him read a story book, which was very entertaining, there was the names of fishes of the sea, and animals on the earth; I do not recollect the name of anything but the rattle snake." Q: "How long ago was this?" Fuller: "About nine years; it was at his house in Green parish -Ann Siders, his present wife was with him -I frequently called there, as I knew the people; it was one o'clock in the afternoon; he read an hour, or perhaps more, and told me the meanings of the things he read, about beasts, fishes and creeping things on earth..."

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

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Griffiths Manuscript: Letter

: [newspapers]

Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, not political, for we have the papers up to May.'

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

Henry Brougham : [speech]

Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... you remember he would not believe that I had written my pestilent Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers], now that was very cruel and unlike me, for the moment I read his speech, I believed it to be his entire from Exordium to Peroration.'

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

Horace : Ode ("Exegi monumentum")

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi monumentum" into that language[.]'

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

: [newspapers]

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady of the Lake" advertised[;] of course it is in his old ballad style, and pretty, after all Scott is the best of them.'

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

Anon : advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake

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

John Galt : Fair Shepherdess, The

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... appears to be damned nonsense ... Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a "Spartan state paper" ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Sheet

Various : Edinburgh Review

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Evening. - I had a straggling number of the E[dinburgh] Review given me by a compassionate Capt. of a frigate lately, it contains the reply to the Oxonian pamphlet, on the Strabonic controversy, the reviewer seems to be in a perilous passion ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Horace : De Arte Poetica

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hints from Horace] ... The Horace I found in the convent where I have sojourned some months.'

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

: [newspapers]

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... '

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

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Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think myself miserable, were it not for a kind of hysterical merriment ... I have tried reading & boxing, & swimming, & writing ... with a number of ineffectual remedies ... '

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

: The Times

Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the Times newspaper, an account of this robbery, and that the men had said they were employed by me; I went to Mansion-house, and saw the prisoners -I had not employed them..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Gifford Banner Print: Newspaper

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Witness statement in trial for forgery: George Coombs: "I appointed to meet him [Conway] next evening at the coffee house in Pickett-street; I did so -while we were in there reading the newspaper over, Martelly was there, and got into conversation with us"

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

Francis Hodgson : [translation of Juvenal]

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first time since my return.'

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

Francis Hodgson : Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first time since my return.'

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

Richard Watson : Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq.

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, verging towards Spinoza ... '

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

Sir William Drummond : Aedipus Judaicus

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published), entitled Oedipus Judaicus, in which he attempts to prove the greater part of the Old Testament an allegory, particularly Genesis and Joshua. He professes himself a theist in the preface, and handles the literal interpretation very roughly. I wish I could see it. Mr Ward has lent it me, and I confess it is worth fifty Watsons.'

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

Sir William Drummond : Aedipus Judaicus

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible ... '

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

Annabella Milbanke : [lines on Dermody]

Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the lines on Dermody so much that I wish they were in rhyme. - The lines in the cave at Seaham have a turn of thought which I cannot sufficiently commend ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Annabella Milbanke : [lines in the cave at Seaham]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Bernard Barton : unknown

Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit which a further perusal of the printed volume has given me no reason to revoke.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Bernard Barton : Metrical Effusions

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

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2)

Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old paths adorned by you so beautifully that they give me double delight. The part which pleases me best is the preface ... '

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

anon :

Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1812, including Granville Penn, "The Bioscope, or Dial of Life Explained": ;The "Bioscope" contained an M.S.S. copy of very excellent verses, from whom I know not, but evidently the composition of some one in the habit of writing & of writing well, I do not know if he be ye. author of the "Bioscope" which accompanied them, but whoevever he is if you can discover hiim, thank him from me most heartily.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

various : Morning Chronicle

Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and two of the Sunday ones.'

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

various : [Sunday papers]

Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and two of the Sunday ones.'

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

various : [newspapers]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... mauled (I see) in the newspapers ... '

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

Annabella Milbanke : [biography]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the specimen you send me is more favourable to her talents than her discernment, & much too indulgent to the subject she has chosen ... but you have not sent me the whole (I imagine) by the abruptness of both beginning & end ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

: [newspapers]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.'

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

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Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and Lady Oxford]; reading, laughing, & playing ... with ye. children; a month has slipped away in this & such like innocent recreations ... '

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

Lord Brooke : [untitled manuscript]

Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the friend of Sir Philip Sidney) (which I wish to submit to the inspection of Mr. Gifford with the following queries ... whether it has ever been published & secondly (if not) whether it is worth publication? - It is from Ld. Oxford's library & must have escaped or been overlooked amongst the M.SS. of the Harleian Miscellany. The writing is Ld. Brooke's except a different hand towards the close, it is ... in the six line stanza ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

: [epitaphs]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church and churchyard full of the most facetious Epitaphs I ever read - "Adue"! (a new orthography taken from one of them) I commend me to your orisons ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs

James and Horace Smith : Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace

Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I heartily concur. - I wish I had the pleasure of Mr. S[mith]'s acquaintance ... What I have read of this work seems admirably done ... '

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

Leigh Hunt : Examiner, The

Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... '

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Lord Thurlow : "When Rogers ... "

In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke down with laughter.'

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

John Galt : Letters from the Levant

Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters from the Levant] ... I wish you had given us more ... no one has yet treated the subject in so pleasing a manner. - If there is any page where your readers may be inclined to think you have said too much - it will probably be that in which you have honoured me with a notice far too favourable ... I know nothing more attractive in poetry than your description of the Romaika [dance] ... thank you for a volume on Greece - which has not yet been equalled - & will with difficulty be surpassed.'

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

anon : advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures...

Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem with "strictures on Ld. B. Mr. Southey and others" ...'

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

anon : advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others

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

anon : Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others

Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in very fair couplets ... '

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

Various : Edinburgh Review

Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical

Thomas Moore : [poems]

Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your poems there ... '

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

Lucien Buonaparte : Charlemagne

Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien Buonaparte will beat us all. I have seen much of his poem in MS., and he really surpasses everything beneath Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

A. L. Castellan : Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire

Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des Ottomans," the best compendium of the kind I ever met with, in six small tomes.'

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

Grimm : unknown

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Grimm - I read it coming down - the French I should probably misspell so take it only in bad English - "Here lies the spoilt child of the/a world which he spoiled"'.

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

J. Thomson : unknown

Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure from ye. perusal of parts of the book - to the whole I have not yet had time to do justice by more than a slight inspection.'

Unknown

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: British Review

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... '

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Lucien Buonaparte : Charlemagne

Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite electrified me.'

Unknown

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Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : De l'Allemagne

In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - I am trying whether De L'Allemagne will act as an opiate - but I doubt it.-'

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unknown : [epigram on J. W. Ward]

Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seems very bad - and Mr. P[erry] has placed it over your puff - I only hope that Mr. W[ard] does not believe that I had any connection with either - '

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Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : De L'Allemagne

Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publication without my perusal of many of its pages ... I should be sorry for my own sake to fix the period when I should not recur to it with pleasure.'

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Various : Christian Observer

Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perusal of an article in the "Christian Observer" on ye. "Giaour." - You perhaps are unacquainted with ye. writer ... I only wish you would have the goodness to thank him very sincerely on my part for ye. pleasure ... which the perusal of a very able and I believe just criticism has afforded me. ... this is ye. first notice I have for some years taken of any public criticism good or bad in the way of either thanks or defence ... '

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unknown : Persian Tale

Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beautiful passages and an interesting story - and I cannot give a stonger proof that such is my opinion than by the date of the hour 2 o' clock. - till which it has kept me awake without a yawn ... the tale must be written by some one - who has been on the spot ... he deserves success. - Will you apologize to the author for the liberties I have taken with his M.S. ... '

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Friedrich Melchoir Grimm : Correspondance Litteraire

Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputation of being wicked, with whom we should be too happy to pass our lives." I need not add it is a woman's saying - a Mademoisele de Sommery's.'

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George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodgson, as he pays me in kind. It is a horrible thing to do too frequently ... '

Unknown

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Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : unknown

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have read her books - like most of them, and delight in the last ... '

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Robert Burns : unknown

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.'

Unknown

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

unknown : [books]

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up books, and fling them down again.'

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Various : Edinburgh Review

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh Review [containing negative review of his work] on me. I heard of it six weeks before, - read it the day of its denunciation, - dined and drank three bottles of claret ... was not easy, till I had vented my wrath and my rhyme, in the same pages aganst every thing and every body.'

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Sir Egerton Brydges : The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental Essays

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man (Sir E[gerton] B[rydges], and a half-wild young one, author of a Poem on the Highlands, called Childe Alarique. The word 'sensibility' (always my aversion) occurs a thousand times in these Essays ... This young man can know nothing of life ... "

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Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster : letter with poem

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webster] ... **** [Lady Frances]'s contained also a very pretty lyric on 'concealed griefs' - of not her own, then very like her."

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Various : The Edinburgh Review

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with himself and other contemporary authors also discussed]."

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George Frederick Cooke : Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, of this kind, was from an extract, in Cooke the actor's life, from his journal, saying that in the reading-room of Albany, near Washington, he perused English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

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George Gordon Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

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George Gordon Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, by Lord Byron. It is well written, His Lordship is rather severe ... on Walter Scott ... "

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Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) : [letter on punishment for adultery in Turkey]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened. He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'

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Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ... I cannot be mistaken (except in taste) in a book I read and lay down, and take up again ... '

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Lord Glenbervie : Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie,

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's, of a new Treatise on Timber. Now here is a man more useful than all the hiistorians and rhymers ever planted. For by oreserving our woods and forests, he furnishes material for all the history of Britain worth reading, and all the odes worth nothing.'

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Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd that when I do read, I can only bear the chicken broth of - any thing but Novels. It is many a year since I looked into one, (though they are sometimes ordered, by way of experiment, but never taken) till I looked yesterday at the worst parts of the Monk. These descriptions .. are forced - the philtred ideas of a jaded voluptuary."

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: [newspapers]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the papers and tea-ed and soda-watered ... '

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unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to leave town to-morrow.'

Unknown

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unknown : [Italian]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** [Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster].'

Unknown

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

: The Morning Post

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the battle of Buonaparte, the destruction of the Custom House, and a paragraph on me as long as my pedigree, and vituperative, as usual.'

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unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, and letters, and am alone ... '

Unknown

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unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into the fire. Redde - but to little purpose.'

Unknown

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

Johann Christoph von Schiller : The Robbers

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.'

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unknown : Anti-Byron

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and told Murray to publish it if he liked. The object of the Author is to prove me an Atheist and a systematic conspirator against law and government. Some of the verse is good; the prose I don't quite understand.'

Unknown

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Isaac Disraeli : Quarrels of Authors

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by that most entertaining and researching writer, Israeli [Isaac Disraeli].'

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Jean Chardin : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'

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Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'

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Matteo Bandello : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'

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: The Edinburgh Review

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the beginning of the article on 'Edgeworth's Patronage,' I have gotten a high compliment, I perceive."'

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unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napoleon Buonaparte - copied it - eaten six biscuits - drunk four bottles of soda water - redde away the rest of my time ... '

Unknown

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John Herman Merivale : Orlando in Roncesvalles

Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written a very noble poem ... your measure is uncommonly well chosen & wielded [goes on to advise March publication].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Maria Edgeworth : Patronage

Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lord Ellenborough!!! from which I infer near & dear relations at the bar ... the tone of her book is as vulgar as her father ...'

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: The Morning Chronicle

Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Post - a wrathful letter about Mr. Moore - in which some Protestant Reader has made a sad confusion about India and Ireland.'

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: The Morning Post

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Leigh Hunt : The Feast of the Poets

Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the best "Session" we have ... '

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unknown : [ministerial gazettes]

Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampoons and other merry conceits on myself in the ministerial gazettes ...'

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Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is one sentence I do not understand ... I will copy it ... "How may I have forsaken that - and under the influence of an ardent zeal for Sincerity - is an explanation that cannot benefit either of us - should any disadvantage arise from the original fault it must be only where it is deserved - Let this then suffice for I cannot by total silence acquiesce in that which if supported when it's [sic] delusion is known to myself would become deception." - - - This I believe is word for word from your letter now before me.'

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John Locke : unknown

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract of Locke's which you mention -- but I have redde it formerly though I fear to little purpose since it is forgotten.'

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: The Book of Job

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isaiah -- and the song of Deborah.'

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: The Book of Isaiah

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: The Book of Deborah

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unknown : Anti-Byron

Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well written (both prose and verse) & ... containing nothing which you ought to hesitate publishing upon my account.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Frances Burney : The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb's attempt to stab herself at a party) : 'I have turned over ye. book at least ye. part of it. -- & think the coincidence unlucky for many reasons ... '

Unknown

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

Francis Jeffrey : review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says -- "Scott and Campbell won't like" kind Soul!'

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: advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814)

Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... '

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Stratford Canning : Bonaparte

Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at your Author but it is a noble poem ... I suppose I may keep this copy -- after reading it I really regret having written my own ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

unknown : [Roman History]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a foreboding -- and remember when quite a child reading the Roman History -- about a marriage I will tell you of when we me[et] -- asking ma mere -- why I should not marry +'

Unknown

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unknown : unknown

Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure You that I perfectly coincide with your judges in their opinion of it's merits. -- Excuse my having detained it so long.'

Unknown

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unknown : [article]

Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends that I have every reason to be satisfied. -- You best know as Publisher how far the book may be injured or benefited by the critique in question.'

Unknown

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Walter Scott : Waverley

Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know when -- I like it as much as I hate Patronage and Wanderer -- & O'donnel and all the feminine trash of the last four months ... '

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Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appears to me that I must have said something which makes you apprehend a misunderstanding on my part of your sentiments ...'

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John Murray : [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)]

Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to postpone publication till my return to town.'

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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 ...'

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unknown : [history book]

Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met with by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in an old & not "very choice Italian" I forget the title -- but it was a history in some 30 tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Cataline's down to Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa -- and Braganza's in Lisbon -- I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal thought it perfection.'

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Thomas Campbell : Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria

Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in Germany (Bavaria I think) which I saw last year -- that is perfectly magnificent ...'

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unknown : unknown

Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to fish for lack of other argument ...'

Unknown

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Richard Porson : Letters to Archdeacon Travis

Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (alluded to by Milbanke in a previous letter) but notes that 'years have elapsed since I saw it.'

Unknown

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unknown : unknown

Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepted: 'Books I have but few here, and those I have read ten times over, till sick of them.'

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Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sitting near me and grew frightened at the effect of it's contents -- which was even painful for a moment -- not a long one -- nor am I often so shaken.'

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Annabella Milbanke : [letter to Byron]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said that to me (the decisive one ) [ie accepting his marriage proposal] was the best & prettiest she ever read ...'

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: The Morning Chronicle

Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the contradiction of a paragraph copied from the Durham paper announcing the intended marriage of Ld. B. with Miss M[ilbank]e. -- How the paragraph came into the Durham or the other papers I know not -- but as it is founded on fact -- I will be much obliged if you will inform me -- who instructed you to contradict this?'

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: [newspaper]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, alluded to by her in letter to him] -- it is just to you -- & not very just to me ...'

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Annabella Milbanke : [letter]

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me -- read it again ...'

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unknown : unknown

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter solitude of my situation with only my Maccaw to converse with -- would be sufficient ... I read -- but very desultorily ...'

Unknown

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: The Morning Chronicle

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in one of his amatory epistles compared himself to Childe Harold ...'

Unknown

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Thomas Moore : article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom

Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must not leave off reviewing. You shine in it ...'

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John Cam Hobhouse : [packet]

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...'

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: The Annual Register

Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily papers ...'

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: [daily newspapers]

Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily papers ...'

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: Byron family pedigree

Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I also wish to have the robe and sword sent up to my house -- and the Pedigree this last must be looked for immediately -- I recollect perfectly seeing it at your house -- and trust that it is not lost or mislaid -- as it is not only a document of importance but beautiful and valuable as a piece of work from the inlaid engravings upon it.'

Unknown

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unknown : unknown

Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced from the perusal, made me anxious for the immediate acquaintance and society of the Gentleman, who has so kindly favoured the world with the production of his leisure hours.'

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Leigh Hunt : The Story of Rimini (Canto 3)

Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in the Canto which I have just finished ...'

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unknown : [paper on the Methodists]

Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly -- I redde it and agree with the writer on one point ... that an addiction to poetry is very generally the result of "an uneasy mind in an uneasy body" ...'

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Charles Robert Maturin : Bertram

Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S[ub] Committee) & myself have read your tragedy: -- he agrees with me in thinking it a very extraordinary production ...'

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Charles Robert Maturin : Bertram

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Lady Byron : [letter]

Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mrs. Leigh -- with much surprize and more sorrow.'

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Leigh Hunt : The Story of Rimini

Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... were in fixed perusal & delight with it ...'

Unknown

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Giambattista Casti : Novelle Amorose

Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart. I had read his "Animali Parlanti," but I think these "Novelle" much better ...'

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Giambattista Casti : Animali Parlante

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise

Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am struck to a degree with the force and accuracy of hs descriptions ...'

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Lady Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...'

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

Benjamin Constant : Adolphe

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...'

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

Edmund Ludlow : memoirs

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remember reading his memoirs in January 1815 (at Halnaby -- ) the first part of them very amusing -- the latter less so, -- I little thought at the time of their perusal by me of seeing his tomb --'

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

Margaret de Thomas : epitaph to Edmund Ludlow

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- long inscription -- Latin -- but simple -- particularly the latter part -- in which his wife (Margaret de Thomas) records her long -- her tried -- and unshaken affection ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: tombstone epitaph

Johann Christoph von Schiller : unknown

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed ... women gabbling below -- read a French translation of Schiller ...'

Unknown

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

anon : [inscription on rock]

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murdered the other ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: inscription

anon : review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit

Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderburne Webster -- and Ilderim -- and the Pamphleteer. -- --'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

James Wedderburn Webster : Waterloo and Other Poems

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

H. Gally Knight : Ilderim: A Syrian Tale

Unknown

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

: The Pamphleteer

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

Lucretia de Borgia : [unknown]

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved in the Ambrosian library), of original love-letters and verses of Lucretia de Borgia & Cardinal Bembo ... the letters are so beautiful that I have done nothing but pore over them, & have made the librarian promise me a copy of them ... The verses are Spanish -- the letters Italian ... all in hr own hand-writing.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia : letters

Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the correspondence ... of Lucretia Borgia wth Cardinal Bembo ... I ... wished sorely to get a copy of one or two of the letters, but is was prohibited ... so I only got some of them by heart. They are kept in the Ambrosian Library, which I often visited to look them over ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter, Unknown

unknown : "book treating of the Rhine"

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Sister of Charlemagne -- as I read the other day in a book treating of the Rhine.'

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

Lady Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon

Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to me to read from Copet last autumn. It seems to me that if the authoress had written the truth ... the romance would not only have been more romantic, but more entertaining.'

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

George MacDonald : Alec Forbes of Howglen

"Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book

: ["the Italian version of the French papers"]

Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the advertisements of Mr. Colburn tagged to the end of your Quarterly review for the year ago.'

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

George MacDonald : Alec Forbes of Howglen

"Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book

: Quarterly Review

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book

R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book

R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book

R.D. Blackmore : Lorna Doone

"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind and taking all the sunshine. The willow bushes hung over the stream as if they were angling with tasseled floats of gold & silver, bursting like a bean-pod. Between them came the water laughing like a maid at her own dancing, and spread with that young blue which never lies beyond the April. And on either bank, the meadow ruffled as the breeze came by, opening (through new tufts of green) daisy-bud or celandine, or a shy glimpse now & then of a love-lorn primrose.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Blanche Hemming Print: Book

James Wedderburn Webster : Waterloo and Other Poems

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was not a little astonished to find an epitaph upon myself -- the desert of which I would postpone for a few years at least ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other Poems

Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ... flatter myself that the writer ... will not regret that the perusal of this has given me as much gratification -- as any composition of that nature could give -- & more than any other ever has given ...'

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

Anne Grant : Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition.

[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine). Vol. 2 has a number of sketches by her. Some of the lines are accompanied by comments or corrections. The end of vol. 3 is dated "My cottage Jany 19th 1809 Thursday night by ... fireside". Marginal comments are in general very brief.

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

George Gordon Lord Byron : travel journal

Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh Manuscript: Codex

Voltaire : Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 volumes -- whom I have been reading -- he is delightful but dreadfully inaccurate frequently.'

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

St. Paul : Epistles to Corinthians

Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between St. Paul and the Corinthians, not to be found in our version, but the Armenian -- but which seems to me very orthodox, and I have done it into scriptural prose English.'

Unknown

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

: [newspaper]

Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th. March I perceive an article purporting to be translated from the literary Gazette of Jena, and referring to a recent publication of mine ...'

Unknown

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

Johan Christoph von Schiller : Geisterseher

Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palace, Venice: 'This was the thing that first struck my imagination in Venice ... more ... than Schiller's "Armenian" -- a novel which took great hold of me when a boy -- it is also called the "Ghost Seer" ..."

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

: reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto III

Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glenarvon" ... the other a review of C[hilde] Har[ol]d in whiich it proclaims me the most rebellious and contumacious Admmirer of Buonaparte -- now surviving in Europe; -- both these Articles are translations from the literary Gazette of German Jena ... they are some weeks old ... I have conserved these papers as curiosities.'

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

Lord Holland : Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for a book which I have not yet received -- but expect to reperuse with great pleasure on my return -- viz -- the 2d. Edition of Lope de Vega.'

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Confessions

Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is pleased with it -- so my Sister writes. -- He said that he was with Rousseau at Chillon -- & that the description is perfectly correct -- but this is not all -- I recollected something of the name & find the following passage in "The Confessions" -- vol.3. page 247. Liv. 8th' [quotes passage mentioning "De Luc pere" and "ses deux fils" as companions on boat trip which took in scenery that inspired descriptions in Julie, and conjectures that this De Luc one of the "fils"]

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

Voltaire : unknown

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extreme inaccuracy ...'

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

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord

Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...'

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

Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh

Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extract I have seen please me very much indeed ...'

Unknown

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

Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh (extracts)

Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They are taken from some magazine, and contain a short outline and quotations from the two first Poems. I am very much delighted with what is before me, and very thirsty for the rest.'

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

Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh (extracts)

Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes the last -- & is not much taken with the first of these performances.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Gregory Lewis Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Robert Maturin : Manuel

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Gregory Lewis

Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh

Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I ride about -- & lounge -- & ponder & -- two or three other things -- so that my reading is very desultory & not so attentive as it used to be.'

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

Thomas Moore : [poems]

Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone over some of our Classics - particularly Pope ... I took Moore's poems & my own & some others - & went over them side by side with Pope's - and I was really astonished ... and mortified - at the ineffable distance in point of sense - harmony - effect - & even Imagination Passion - & Invention - between the little Queen Anne's Man - & us of the lower Empire ...'

Unknown

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

Alexander Pope : [poems]

Unknown

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

George Gordon Lord Byron : [poems]

Unknown

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Biographia Literaria

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[ane] Theatre - for acting Bertram ... this is not very grateful nor graceful of the worthy auto-biographer [whom Byron had championed] ...'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Summer ...'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Gregory Lewis

Aeschylus : Prometheus

Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ...'

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

Richard Belgrave Hoppner : Elegy

Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know whether you wished me to retain the copy, but I shall retain it till you tell me otherwise; and am very much obliged by the perusal.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Rev. William Beloe : The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life

Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading -- pray who may be the Sexagenarian -- whose gossip is very amusing ...'

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

: [Reviews]

Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertained -- it requires to be as far from England as I am -- to relish a periodical paper properly ...'

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

: [obituary]

Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.'

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

William Stewart Rose : The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti

Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...'

Unknown

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

: [Italian Gazettes]

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now Reform parliamentary candidate] has been well nigh slain by a potatoe -- so the Italian Gazettes have it ...'

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

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --except Rob Roy.'

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

John Cam Hobhouse : Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is perfect ...'

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

: Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage

Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has attacked Shelley in an oblique and shabby manner.'

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

Isaac Disraeli : The Literary Character

Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byron in first edition quoted): 'It was not fair in you to show him [Disraeli] my copy of his former one, with all the marginal notes and nonsense made in Greece when I was not two-and-twenty, and which certainly were not meant for his perusal ... I have a great respect for Israeli [sic] and his talents, and have read his works over and over repeatedly ... I don't know a living man's books I take up so often, or lay down so reluctantly, as Israeli's [sic] ...'

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

Isaac Disraeli : The Literary Character

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

: Galignani's newspaper

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailment of the reporter -- it was the best of the day.'

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

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "The Vampire" with the addition of my name as that of the Author. -- I am not the author and never heard of the work in question until now. In a more recent paper I perceive a formal annunciation of "the Vampire" with the addition of an account of my "residence in the Island of Mitylene" ... which [island] I have occasionaly sailed by ... but where I have never yet resided.'

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

Francis Hodgson : The Friends: a Poem

Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of his own.'

Unknown

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

Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, Orlando Furioso ending with the line "Mi serbo a farsi udie ne l'altro Canto" the follow[ing] autograph in pencil of Alfieri's "Vittorio Alfieri vide e venero" / 8 Giugno 1783. --'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Count Vittorio Alfieri : [marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

n/a : n/a

Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rather two -- one was "Martini Luigi Implora pace." the other -- "Lucrezia Picini Implora eterna qiuete"'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs

Benvenuto da Imola : Commentary on Dante, Commedia

Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's Inferno] -- but except her father Guido's tomb -- and the mere notice of the fact in the Latin commentary of Benvenuto da Imola in M.S. in the Library -- I could discover nothing for him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein : Corinne

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I could not have read it.'

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

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents punished him when they learned he had wasted so much money on a book, but later he read it to them: "And how we all loved it, and eventually, when we got to 'Little Em'ly', how we all cried together at poor old Peggotty's distress. The tears united us, deep in misery as we were ourselves".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

Joseph Addison :

'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the last century at a time when I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the authors of the present time". Growing up in Cromarty, Miller had access to the substantial personal libraries of a carpenter and a retired clerk, as well as his father (sixty volumes), his uncles (150 volumes) and a cabinet-maker poet (upwards of 100 volumes). These collections offered a broad selection of English essayists and poets - of the Queen Anne period.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Miller Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Alexander Pope :

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

Countess Teresa Guiccioli : [letter]

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of your note with all due attention ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

[probably William] Robertson :

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

:

And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them, &c.) The Doctrine of Conversion (as I preached it as now in my Treatise of Conversion) was received on her heart as the seal on the wax. Whereupon she presently fell to self-judging, and to frequent prayer, and reading, and serious thoughts of her present state, and her salvation.

Unknown

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Charlton

Walter Scott : [novels]

Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even prefer them to his poetry, which ... I redde for the first time in my life in your rooms in Trinity College.'

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

Walter Scott : [poems]

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

: [unknown]

When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She would privately talk to the servants, and read good books to them.

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Baxter Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hurried -- he forgets Ravenswood's name ... and he don't make enough of Montrose -- but Dalgetty is excellent ...'

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

Walter Scott : A Legend of Montrose

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

: [newspapers]

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parliament.'

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

: German periodicals

Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word nor letter. -- I have sent you the enclosed to beg you to translate to me some remarks -- which appear to be Goethe's upon Manfred -- & if I may judge by two notes of admiration ... and the word "hypocondrisch" are any thing but favourable ...'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis in 1816 at Coligny translated most of it to me viva voce ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Gregory Lewis Print: Book

Thomas Moore : Works

Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to order), and I am glad to see my old friends with a French face. I have been skimming and dipping, in and over them, like a swallow, and as pleased as one.'

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

Thomas Moore : Poems of the Late Thomas Little

Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'

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

Thomas Moore : Poems of the Late Thomas Little

Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'

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

Marino Sanuto : "Italian history of the Doges of Venice"

Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.'

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

unknown : "Siege of Zara"

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

Pierre Antoine Daru : unknown

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

Jean Charles Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages

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

Henry Matthews : Diary of an Invalid

Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes about "Serventismo" which no foreigner can understand ... without residing years in the country. -- I read that part (translated that is) to some of the Ladies in the way of knowing how far it was accurate and they laughed particularly at the part where he says that "they must not have children by their lover" ...'

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

unknown : [books]

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometimes to read one book and sometimes another, a few pages at a time -- and change frequently ...'

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

: Gazette

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish lady of 37 who has run away with a young Englishman of 24 ...'

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

Count Giulio Perticari : Dell'amor patrio di Dante

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...'

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

Jane Waldie : Sketches Descriptive of Italy

Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to Marino Faliero] ... I perceive (horresco referens [Virgil, Aeneid II.204: "I shudder to recall"]) that it is written by a WOMAN!!!'

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

John Cam Hobhouse : [speeches]

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquence is better than his company.'

Unknown

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

: Quarterly Review

Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...'

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

Amelia Hutchison Stirling : Monsieur le Comte

'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago and in which I thought there was great promise especially in one character.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Manuscript: Book in MS

Harriette Cheape : Tea at the Mains

'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name? ["Tea at the Mains", by Harriette Cheape] It was exceedingly good and true.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Louis Stevenson : Wrecker

'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Naulakha

'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Sarah Grand : Singularly Deluded

'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original, though the name of the story might have been better chosen.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: St James's

'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir Theodore Martin.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Graham Travers : Mona Maclean: Medical Student

'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regret having published it some years back. Marion Crawford's last novel is clever of course as are all his, but not pleasant and very long and dreary I think.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book, Serial / periodical

F Marion Crawford :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book, Serial / periodical

:

'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of early Scotch poetry such as Dunbar, Henryson, &c.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

:

'[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the Athenaeum last Saturday with the greatest regret'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was startled by his mother a most acute old lady (who had picked up the sheets as he let them fall) exclaiming "Surely George the Germans never were in England"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [?George] Simpson Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of the Magazine. Nothing so good has appeared for years. In your place, I should print it as a pamphlet, and circulate it everywhere.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.C. Swayne Print: Serial / periodical

: papers

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...'

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

: [poetry]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers mentioned use of copy of Richardson's Pamela by grocer as wrapping-paper: 'For my part, I have met with most poetry upon trunks [ie as lining]; so that I am apt to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship.'

Unknown

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

Guiseppe Bossi : Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Rossi [ed. notes that this perhaps misreading of Bossi]...'

Unknown

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

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord (3rd series)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times) of the third series of "Tales of my Landlord" ...'

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

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'

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

Xenophon : Retreat of the Ten Thousand

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'

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

Xenophon : Retreat of the Ten Thousand

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the "Ten Thousand" again, and will go to bed.'

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

Francis Bacon : "apophthegms"

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in which I have detected such blunders as a school-boy might detect rather than commit. Such are the sages! What must they be, when such as I can stumble on their mistakes or misstatements?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in print.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Doddridge Blackmore Print: Serial / periodical

Francis Bacon : "apophthegms"

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'

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

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'

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

Pierre Louis Ginguene : Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'

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

Lord Holland : Lope de Vega

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'

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

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and read Mitford again, and played with my mastiff ...'

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

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".'

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

William Roscoe : The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

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

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord (2nd series)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".'

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

: Lugano Gazette

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.'

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

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.'

Unknown

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

unknown : [books]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned over and over half a score books for the passage in question, and can't find it.'

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

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had read Walter Scott's Rob Roy.'

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

Walter Scott : Rob Roy

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had read Walter Scott's Rob Roy.'

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

Samuel Johnson : The Vanity of Human Wishes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes" ...'

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

: accounts

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. Dined ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. Dined ...'

Unknown

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

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- read. Corrected Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.'

Unknown

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

various : Lives of poets

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.'

Unknown

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

Alexander Pope : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unless an occasional flight over the classical ones, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, Gray, and those who approach them nearest ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

John Dryden : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Samuel Johnson : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron

Thomas Gray : unknown

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: letters

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

: [Poets]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.'

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

Joseph Spence : Anecdotes

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.'

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

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says that "no reader cares any more about the characteristic manners of his Eclogues than about the authenticity of the tale of Troy." 'Tis false ...'

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

Anon. : Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read "Homer Travestied" (the first twelve books), because [John Cam] Hobhouse and others bored me with their learned localities, and I love quizzing.'

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

Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition. There is a good deal of taffeta in some of Tom's prefatory phrases, but his work is good as a whole.'

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

John Milton : Sabrina Fair

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of the song of Milton, "Sabrina fair" has brought back upon me ... the happiest, perhaps, days of my life ... when living at Cambridge with Edward Noel Long ...'

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

Franz Grillparzer : Sappho

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guido Sorelli of the German Grillparzer ...'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know them through the medium of English, French, and Italian translations.'

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

Schiller : unknown

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

Christoph Martin Wieland : unknown

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

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an intended tragedy of Sardanapalus ... read over a passage in the ninth vol. octavo of Mitford's Greece, where he rather vindicates the memory of this last of the Assyrians.'

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

Seneca : tragedies

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.'

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

Seneca : tragedies

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'

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

Diodorus Siculus : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'

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

William Mitford : History of Greece

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's Greece -- wrote part of a scene of "Sardanapalus".'

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

n/a : Javanese newspaper

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Grey ... [John] Murray ... had just sent me a Java gazette ... Pulling it out, by way of curiosity, we found it to contain a dispute ... on Moore's merits and mine."

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

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- dined ...'

Unknown

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

unknown : [various books]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lombardy -- English, Italian, French, and Latin. Read till eight -- went out.'

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

: letters

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Read letters ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth : Memoirs

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the Miss Edgeworth.'

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

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Correspondence. Dined ...'

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

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remarked on an anecdote in Grimm's Correspondence ... [reproduces part of text of vol. VI]'

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

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.'

Unknown

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

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...'

Unknown

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

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lounged.'

Unknown

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel : History of Literature

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I have been reading W[ilhelm]. F[riedrich]. S[chlegel] ... till now, and I can make out nothing ... [two paragraphs later] Continuing to read Mr. F[rederick] S[chlegel]. He is not such a fool as I took him for ...'

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel : History of Literature

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].'

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

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Correspondence.'

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

Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth : Memoirs

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the case of Sir F. B. Delaval ...'

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

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...'

Unknown

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

William Lisle Bowles : various

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with all the replies and rejoinders. Perceive that my name has been lugged into the controversy ...'

Unknown

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

Louis Buonaparte : Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ... Read "Tales of my Landlord" ...'

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

Friedrich Melchior Grimm : Correspondence Litteraire

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a song of Maupertuis to a female Laplander ...'

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

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not written.'

Unknown

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

: Roman history

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- read Roman History.'

Unknown

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

: Italian newspaper

Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c. &c ... I do reiterate -- and desire that every thing may be done to prevent it from coming out ...'

Unknown

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

William Turner : Journal of a Tour in the Levant

In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and in particular with regard to swimming the Hellespont, his own attempt being mentioned by Turner), recently sent by Murray.

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

Walter Scott : [various novels]

Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiquary -- It is five years since I have had a copy -- -- I have read all the others forty times.'

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

John Wilson Croker : review of John Keats, Endymion

Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so severe as many reviews in that and other journals upon others.'

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Cenci

Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...'

Unknown

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

unknown : Roman History

Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particularly taken with the battle near the Lake Regillus in the Roman History -- put into my hands the first.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Ruddiman : Latin Grammar

Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Grammar ...'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

Francis Hodgson : Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive your compliments kindly and your censures temperately ...'

Unknown

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

Francis Hodgson : Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in

Unknown

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

Francis Hodgson : Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries

Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.'

Unknown

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

Douglas Kinnaird : letter (ie article?)

Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning.'

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

J. G. Lockhart : John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron

Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & full of fun and ferocity' [goes on to speculate as to who author might be.]

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

[N. N. A.] anon : [private letter]

Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply N. N. A. ... She simply says that she is dying, and that as I had contributed so highly to her existing pleasure, she thought that she might say so ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

A. A. Watts : series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's works

Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in England some months ago. I only saw them, by Murray's bounty, the other day.'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

John Wilson Croker : Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion

Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Richard Tully : Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli

Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of the furniture in Canto 3d. is taken from Tully's Tripoli ... and the rest from my own observation.'

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

Octavius Gilchrist : pamphlets

Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) relating to Bowles-Pope controversy.

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

: Books of Old Testament

Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through before I was eight years old -- that is to say the Old Testament -- for the New struck me as a task -- but the other as a pleasure -- I speak as a boy -- from the recollected impression of that period at Aberdeen in 1796.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown : [reviews]

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

Aeschylus : Prometheus Bound

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that is English as exercises) a translation of a Chorus from "the Prometheus" of Aeschylus -- were received by him but coolly ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Henry Fielding : unknown

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.'

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

Thomas Moore : [letter]

Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of yours to him yesterday, and he begs me to write to you about his Poeshie.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

George Gordon Lord Byron : Memoirs

Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ... Mr. Kinnaird & others had read them at Paris and noticed none such.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Kinnaird Manuscript: Unknown

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -- I perceive that the "two greatest examples of human vanity -- in the present age" are firstly "the Ex-Emperor Napoleon" -- and secondly -- "his Lordship the noble poet &c." -- meaning your hunble servant ...'

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

John Sheppard : [unknown]

Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 December 1821: "I have received yr. letter ... the Extract which it contains has affected me ... it would imply a want of all feeling to have read it with indifference ... for whomever it was meant [this apparently uncertain] -- I have read it with all the pleasure which can arise from so melancholy a topic."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

: advertisement for "Mirandola"

Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I saw it mentioned was in a newspaper ...'

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Robert Southey : letter

Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey ... which he is pleased to entitle a reply to "a note relating to himself." appending to [Byron's ] the "two Foscari".'

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

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

: article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822

Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have discovered that you and I are no poets.'

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

n/a : [English newspaper]

Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Parisian English) which I have seen for a long time -- and I was lost in admiration of it's size and volume."

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

:

Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the door -- on the left as you enter -- there is a monument with a tablet containing these words: "When Sorrow weeps o'er Virtue's sacred dust, Our tears become us, and our Grief is just, Such were the tears she shed, who grateful pays This last sad tribute to her love, and praise." I recollect them (after seventeen years) not from any thing remarkable in them -- but because -- from my seat in the Gallery -- I had generally my eyes turned towards that monument -- as near it as convenient I would wish Allegra to be buried ...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: epitaph

Francis Jeffrey : unknown

Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impartial Galignani.'

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

: Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron

Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron] ... nor have I any desire. The price is, as I saw in some advertisement, fourteen shillings, which is too much to pay for a libel on oneself.'

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

: Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds

Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subscriptions for the Irish poor from Florence, but not from Leghorn.'

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

Thompson : book of prescriptions

Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): 'At last I seized Thompson's book of prescriptions -- (a donation of yours) and physicked myself with the first dose I found in it ...'

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

Harriet Lee : The German's Tale

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in Sophia and Harriet Lee's Canterbury Tales] from which I took it [ha]d a strange effect upon me when I read it as a boy -- and it has haunted me ever since -- from some singular conformity between it & my ideas.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): '[Galignani] ... has forwarded a copy of at least one half of it -- in his indefatigable Catch-penny weekly compilation -- and ... I have looked through it...'

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

Count D'Orsay : Journal

Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinary production ... I know or knew personally most of the personages and societies which he describes -- and after reading his remarks -- have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau : Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau

Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more welcome than the short work in which the actions of your Brother [General Marceau], whose memory I revere, are so well described. I have read this work with the greatest pleasure ...'

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

Benjamin Constant : Adolphe

Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... was at the desire of Madame de Stael ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book

n/a : The Times

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times."

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

Henri Beyle : Rome

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

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

Henri Beyle : Life of Haydn

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

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

Henri Beyle : Life of Mozart

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

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

Henri Beyle : essay on Racine and Shakespeare

Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'

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

Amadee Pichot : Essai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]t

Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me with your compositions ... As to the Essay, etc., I am obliged to you for the present, although I had already seen it joined to the last edition of the translation. I have nothing to object to it ... though naturally there are ... several errors ...'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : unknown

Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received at Leghorn: ' ... [I] arrived here ... this morning ... here ... I found your lines ... and I could not have had a more favourable Omen or more agreeable surprise than a word from Goethe written by his own hand.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter

Maria Edgeworth : 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', Leila or the Island and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Ann Fraser Tytler : Leila: or, The Island

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Catherine Sinclair : Holiday House

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

: The Wave and the Battlefield

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Henry V

'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Mary Louisa Molesworth : The Cuckoo Clock

'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Chaplet of Pearls

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Heir of Redclyffe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Frederick Marryat : The Settlers in Canada

'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Wilhelm Hey : Funfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig Fabeln

'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss

'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book

Charles Dickens :

'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Walter Scott :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

William Shakespeare :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Jane Austen :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

George Meredith :

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Tom Jones

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : The Three Musketeers

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Macaulay Print: Book

Charles Darwin : The Origin of Species

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

: [newspapers]

Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] is in a third Edition ...'

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

John Cam Hobhouse : Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold

Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Italy -- some part of it the best he ever wrote ... '

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

: Critical Review

Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or another, magazines & c. -- some very favourable, as the Critical, others severe but just enough, one in particular (the Eclectic) quits the work, to criticise the author ...'

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

: The Eclectic Review

Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or another, magazines & c. -- some very favourable, as the Critical, others severe but just enough, one in particular (the Eclectic) quits the work, to criticise the author ...'

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

William Harness : unknown

Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many of your compositions ...'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

Henry Gally Knight : Alashtar, an Arabian Tale

Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Unknown

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "the Vampire" with the addition of my name as that of the Author. -- I am not the author ...'

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

: Galignani's Messenger

Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld. Byron's works -- the name of an "Ode to the land of the Gaul" -- it is not my production ...'

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

: review of Byron, The Age of Bronze

Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity to prosecute.'

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

: Hellenica Chronica

Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an article in the Chronica Greca [paper actually entitled the Hellenica Chronica] -- denouncing the Danish Baron Adam Friedel -- who is not here to respond. -- I do not know if this is just but it does not appear to me to be generous.'

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

Hall Caine : The Manxman

George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead of 3."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book

: Chambers's Encyclopedia

On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole volues of Chambers's Encyclopedia ...'"

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

Karl Marx : Das Kapital

"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Bernard Shaw Print: Book

Karl Marx : unknown

'[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Saintsbury Print: Book

Walter Scott : unknown

'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all of Scott, who influenced his own first writings.'

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

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over Jeanie's meeting with the Queen ..."'

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

various : The Abbotsford Correspondence

'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or Scott's Journal (1890) ...'

Unknown

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

Walter Scott : Journal

'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or Scott's Journal (1890) ...'

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

Walter Scott : Katherine Christian

'[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherine Christian (1941).'

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

Walter Scott : Wandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet)

'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Story of the World -- Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale".'

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

Jane Austen : [novels]

E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth open and the mind closed.'

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

Charles Dickens : unknown

'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of his life.'

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

: [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b

To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the resolutions over carefully, then most reverently uncovering his head, he took the offered pen, and when he had affixed his name, he said 'By God's grace I will keep them'... He became a diligent student of his Bible and theological works; preached the gospel locally for some years in his native land, and then emigrated to Canada...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: A Young Ploughman Manuscript: Sheet

Robert Browning : Sordello

'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it while convalescing, he entered a state of panic that his illness had destroyed his reason; then, having passed the book from his bedside to a visiting friend, who also exhibited utter incomprehension, he collapsed relieved on his pillow with a cry of "Thank God!"!'

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

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the d'Urbervilles

'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: "Though we read books like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Hatter's Castle' both dealing with defloration of innocence and an ultimate baby, we drew no parallels and made no application to ourselves. I even read Radclyffe Hall's classic story of lesbianism, The Well of Loneliness, without having the faintest idea of what it was about'.

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

A.J. Cronin : Hatter's Castle

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

Radclyffe Hall : The Well of Loneliness

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

Walter Scott : Fortunes of Nigel

'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up a book, the "Fortunes of Nigel" and read on and on till it was three o'clock in the morning.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

John Ruskin : Praeterita

'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 August 1889] that it was "an admirable specimen of its author's merits and defects ..."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grant Duff Print: Serial / periodical

: Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'

'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's "Felix Holt"] and neither daring to say so, except in the most timid way - proves this conclusively.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

: Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

Voltaire : unknown

... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H. G. Wells Print: Book

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together from Dickens, Lamb, Charles Reade and Thackeray."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

Charles Lamb : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

Charles Reade : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

William Makepeace Thackeray : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne Print: Unknown

Algernon Swinburne : Les Noyades

"In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His target was not his host, Richard Monckton Milnes ... Nor was Swinburne particularly showing off for Thackeray, a fellow guest ... His aim was directed more at the rest of the table: Thackeray's two daughters and the new Archbishop of York, William Thomson ... Swinburne read Les Noyades'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne

Algernon Swinburne : unknown

'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of the artist Simeon Solomon ... "For three hours he spouted his poetry to us, and it was of a power, beauty and originality unequalled."'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Swinburne

: Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Quarterly Review

'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Cecil Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

Henry James : What Maisie Knew

' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my very limit ..."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : Lady Audley's Secret

'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took the first opportunity of stealing the novel in question [Lady Audley' s Secret]. I read it eagerly, passionately, vehemently," afterwards progressing to the rest of Braddon's fiction, including The Doctor's Wife, about "a lady who loved Shelley and Byron", which in turn led him to take up those poets ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : The Doctor's Wife

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Moore Print: Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : The King's Tragedy

On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's Tragedy" ...'

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Robert Browning : Men and Women

The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you their kind regards. What a glorious book "Men and Women" is!" (Letters written to Ellen Heaton; sold in 1969; whereabouts unknown.)

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book

Arnold Bennett : Anna of the Five Towns

. . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an inventory of the furniture in Anna's kitchen', that his characters don't come alive . . .

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

George Eliot : Felix Holt the Radical

'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it. It leaves an impression on my mind as of "Hamlet" played by six sets of gravediggers. Of course it will be a successful book, but I think chiefly because "Adam Bede" and "Silas Marner" went before it. Now that I have read it, I have given up the idea of reviewing it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: [Advertisement of works by Lamartine]

'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offering, not even by a publisher in his own name a [italics] rabais [end italics] of so many francs on the price of his entire works to anyone who will buy them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

: The Times

'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am alone in thinking so, of if the opinion is general, but it seems to me that the writing of the "Times" just now is wonderfully bad'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

: Bible

'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as I read. I don't suppose my powers are equal to hers - my work to myself looks perfectly pale and colourless beside hers - but yet I have had far more experience and, I think, a fuller conception of life'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Swinburne : Threnody

I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom, for us? I have read it over and over again, scarcely able to see the words for tears.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Newspaper

: [Italian]

'[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'.

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant

Walter Scott : Journal

'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one watches everything he does. I have read over and over again what he says of his wife's death. It is so sober, so chastened, so true: "I wonder how I shall do with the thoughts which were hers for thirty years".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

R.T. Davison : Life of Archibald Campbell Tait

'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, but now brought down to the very dust, I turned to it with a sense of common suffering'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

John Addington Symonds : Life of Symonds

'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative, all about the facts of a life so simple as mine, and his elaborate self-discussions'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Night and Morning

'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Edward Caird : Sermons

'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this life - which one thinks the more of by a natural selfishness when one seems to have a double portion of them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

: Athenaeum

We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical

unknown : Review of Adam Bede

We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

: Blackwood's Magazine

'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton : St Stephen's

'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Serial / periodical

A.B. Jameson : Legends of the Saints

'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our interior.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maggie Oliphant Print: Book

R.H. Story :

'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F.W. Robertson as leaders of the "Advance of Christian Thought"?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS

A.W. Kinglake : Invasion of the Crimea

'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial place? Such a concentration of suave hatred, malice, and uncharitableness surely never was. The narrative is perfectly delightful.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Marie Corelli : Ardath

G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G. H. Hardy Print: Book

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Essays

'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wisdom and experience, sweetened by imagination'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

David Wingate : My Little Wife

'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in "Maga" [Blackwood's Magazine]. And I like some of David Wingate's poems very much, other some I don't particularly care for; "My Little Wife" is delightful.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Marie Corelli : novels

"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had read all her books."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Duke of York Print: Book

Nat Gould : novels

" ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..."

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

Marie Stopes : [book on birth control]

'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birth control , which she gratefully read'.

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

Marie Stopes : [book on sex]

'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually, she was forced to conclude that the books went unread, or at least unheeded).'

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

Havelock Ellis : [book on sex]

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

: Kama Sutra

'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually, she was forced to conclude that the books went unread, or at least unheeded).'

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh

From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Aurora Leigh ? by far the greatest work of its author surely, and almost beyond anything for exhaustless poetic resource.? (Heaton collection: letters written to Ellen Heaton; sold in 1969; whereabouts unknown.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson :

'... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: King Kalakava Print: Unknown

Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher : A School History of England

'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book

George Moore : Esther Waters

George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book

St Paul : Epistles

'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'

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

: The Bible

'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'

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

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'

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

Henry James : The Saloon

'"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1909.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Bernard Shaw

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Heir of Redclyffe

" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book

J. Henry Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward

Plutarch : Lives

'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.

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

Milner : Ecclesiastical History

'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.

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

: Xenophon

'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.

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

Mrs Humphry Ward :

' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dislike writing straight after reading Mrs H. Ward! -- she is as great a menace to health of mind as influenza to the body".'

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

Homer : The Odyssey

In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.

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

Virgil :

'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.

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

Fenelon : Dialogues of the Dead

The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'

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

Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis :

'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two more of them.'

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

: Bible

[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'.

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

:

'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any books for which I ask him, so that I am nearly as well off in this respect as at home'.

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

Boccacio : Decameron

'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...'

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

:

'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.'

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

Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales

'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on my toolbox, half a mile from the surface, one mile from the nearest church and seemingly hundreds of miles from God, reading the Canterbury Tales, Lamb's Essays, Darwin's Origin of Species, Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, or anything that I could manage to get hold of". That could be hazardous: once, when he should have been minding a set of rail switches, he was so absorbed in Goldsmith's The Deserted Village that he allowed tubs full of coal to crash into empties'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Charles Lamb :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Charles Darwin : On the Origin of Species

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Oscar Wilde : Ballad of Reading Gaol

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Deserted Village

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson : The Charge of the Light Brigade

'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message "crashed into my mind, mixing together the soldiers of the poem and the men of the pits, I was terribly excited. Why hadn't all the clever people found this out?".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: G.A.W. Tomlinson Print: Book

Karl Marx : Das Kapital

[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own dialectic was derived from Straight and Crooked Thinking, a guide to identifying faulty logic, but he "enjoyed it because it taught him how to twist truth to his own ends...".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Print: Book

: Straight and Crooked Thinking

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ... after breakfast on Sunday morning I took the MS. of "Jane Eyre" to my little study, and began to read it. The story quickly took me captive. Before twelve o'clock my horse came to the door, but I could not put the book down ... Presently the servant came to tell me that luncheon was ready; I asked him to being me a sandwich and a glass of wine, and still went on with "Jane Eyre" ... before I went to bed that night I had finsihed reading the manuscript.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Murray Smith Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgeworth were in their prime.'

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

: Quaker correspondence

'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed out passages he now deemed inappropriate ...'

Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: George Fox Manuscript: Letter

[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

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]

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

Herbert George Wells : [unknown]

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

John Rodrigo Dos Passos : [unknown]

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

John Steinbeck : [unknown]

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Essays

'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported her for reading Macaulay's "Essays" during preparation time ...'

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

: The Girl's Own Paper

'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-moralistic).'

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

Sarah Lewis : Woman's Mission

In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d book and ... the most philosophical and masterly on the subject I ever read or glanced over' ...

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

: philosophical texts

'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary St Leger Harrison Print: Book

: poetry

'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary St Leger Harrison Print: Book

: poetry

'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Douglas Campbell

: poetry

'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower

John Foxe : Book of Martyrs

"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Angela Brazil

John Ruskin : Modern Painters

" .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had copied out and carried round with her ..."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Arnold Print: Book

: Texts in/on early Spanish

On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Arnold Print: Book

J. A. Hobson : The Science of Wealth

'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The Science of Wealth" to the effect that a certain number of wageless unemployed was a necessary condition of capitalist industry ... "In this mood of altruistic indignation I picked up H. G. Wells's "New Worlds for Old" -- under the misapprehension that it was another scientific romance like "The First Men in the Moon", which had fascinated me years before -- and tumbled straight into Socialism overnight".'

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

H. G. Wells : New Worlds for Old

"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The Science of Wealth to the effect that a certain number of wageless unemployed was a necessary condition of capitalist industry ... 'In this mood of altruistic indignation I picked up H. G. Wells's New Worlds for Old -- under the misapprehension that it was another scientific romance like The First Men in the Moon, which had fascinated me years before -- and tumbled straight into Socialism overnight'."

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

H. G. Wells : The First Men in the Moon

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

: Votes for Women

"A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who sceptically bought a copy of Votes for Women around 1909, took it home, and read it straight through: ' ... When I had finished reading that paper I ... realized that I had been a Feminist all my life without knowing it'."

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

Jane Porter : The Scottish Chiefs

"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."

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

Samuel Smiles : LIfe and Labour

"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."

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

: ['Penny Bloods']

'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

George Eliot [pseud] :

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

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

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

William Wordsworth : poetry

Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the collections [of his poetry] published in his lifetime ..."

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

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled that, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, he scraped up 3 1/2d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents soundly thrashed him when they learned he had wasted so much money on a book, but later he read it to them: "'And how we all loved it ... how we all cried together at poor old Peggotty's distress!'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

George Eliot : [unknown]

'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or painted verbal scenery, a practice at which I became very dextrous".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Acorn Print: Book

John Milton :

'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps there was a guidance, although indefinite and without distinctive aim". Howell groped his way through literature "on the principle that one poet's works suggested another, or the criticisms on one led to comparisons with another. Thus: Milton - Shakespeare; Pope-Dryden; Byron-Shelley; Burns-Scott; Coleridge-Wordsworth and Southey, and later on Spenser-Chaucer, Bryant-Longfellow, and so on". By following these intertextual links, autodidacts could reconstruct the literary canon on their own'.

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

William Shakespeare :

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

Alexander Pope :

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

John Dryden :

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

George Gordon, Lord Byron :

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley :

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

Robert Burns :

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

Walter Scott :

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge :

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

William Wordsworth :

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

Robert Southey :

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

Edmund Spenser :

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

Geoffrey Chaucer :

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :

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

William Cullen Bryant :

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

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

[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

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

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

Frederick Marryat : Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific

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

[unknown] : [account of Bounty mutiny]

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

Arthur Conan Doyle : Sir Nigel

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

Richard Doddridge Blackmore : Lorna Doone

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

: Bible

"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to read had been awakened. Books, however, were very scarce. The Bible and Bunyan were the principle; he committed many chapters of the former to memory, and accepted all Bunyan's allegory as bona fide history. Afterwards, he obtained access to 'Robinson Crusoe', a few old Wesleyan magazines and some battle histories. These constituted his sole reading, until he came up to London, at the age of fifteen, as an errand boy."

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

John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

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

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

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

: [Wesleyan magazines]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Serial / periodical

: [battle histories]

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Meditations

" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thanks, and love to you, excellent Antoninus. L. H. Feb. 7th 1853. His second regular perusal.'"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Henry Leigh Hunt Print: Book

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard annotated (with 'reflective remarks') by owner, General James Wolfe, to whom it was given by his fiancee Katharine Lowther.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: General James Wolfe

: Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington

"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Countess Guiccioli would 'be cited as an instance of conjugal happiness,' by giving the counterevidence of a contemporary: 'yet Trelawney told me he was wearied to death by her fondness --'"

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

Jane Austen : novels

" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a very small number of typographical errors."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Lloyd : Lloyd's Penny Times

"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."

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

William Cobbett : Works

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

: French without a Master

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

: [English history]

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

: [Roman history]

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

: [Grecian history]

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

: [books]

"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, and in all possible places; up in bed till two or three in the morning, - nothing daunted by once setting the bed on fire. Greatly indebted was I also to the bookstalls, where I have read a great deal, often folding a leaf in a book, and returning the next day to continue the subject; but sometimes the book was gone, and then great was my grief! When out of a situation, I have often gone without a meal to purchase a book."

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

: [books]

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

Tom Paine : The Rights of Man

"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, the anomalies of our societary state, politics &tc., and the circle of my being rapidly out-surged. New power came to me with all that I saw and thought and read. I studied political works, - such as Paine, Volney, Howitt, Louis Blanc, &tc, which gave me another element to mould into my verse, though I am convinced that a poet must sacrifice much if he write party-political poetry."

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

Volney :

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

Howitt :

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

Louis Blanc :

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

Joseph Milner : History of the Church of Christ

H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ; these include: "'You bolt every lie that the Fathers tell as glibly as your Creed'," and "'Here I give in. I have done my best -- But the monotonous absurdity dishonesty & malevolence of this man are beyond me. Nov 13'.'"

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

Le Sage : Gil Blas

'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'

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

Robert Southey : Thalaba

?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?

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

Elizabeth Montague : [essay on Shakespeare]

'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.

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

unknown : History of James I

'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.

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

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.

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

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies

'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.

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

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was always habit in our family to read aloud every evening.'

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

Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel

'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his delight in reading them, that he determined on writing himself a poem in six cantos which he called the "Battle of Cheviot"'.

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

Walter Scott : Marmion

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

Xenophon : Anabasis

[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'

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

Xenophon : Anabasis

[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837'

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

Xenophon : Anabasis

[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.

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

Plautus : unknown

'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the beginning of February 1835'.

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

Plautus : unknown

'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from the 24th of May to the 23rd of August 1835'

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

Plautus : unknown

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

James Boswell : Life of Johnson

H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as well as critical remarks, to his copy of James Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Leigh Hunt Print: Book

James Boswell : The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of text, in his copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Gibson Lockhart Print: Book

: Illustrated Chatterton

Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and insertions, by readers: "'I almost ridiculed the idea of an ILLUSTRATED CHATTERTON, in this way, till I saw Mr. Haslewood's copy, in twenty-one volumes, which riveted me to my seat!' (pp.64-65)"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Frognall Dibdin Print: Book

Joanna Southcott : The Strange Effects of Faith

H. J. Jackson discusses William George Thompson's annotations to Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith (including glosses, and cross-references to the Bible), which Thompson signs and dates "'Easter Day, April 14th, 1811'".

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William George Thompson

Henry Blunt : Sermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea

[Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Sermon II. Forgiveness a present mercy", ms note = "GFI [?] Nov 28th 1847/ April 30th 1848/ April 15 1854/ Oct 19th 1856"; p. 42 - some text has been deleted.

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

T. J. Mathias : Pursuits of Literature

H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A contemptible heap of rant & twaddle'" and "'Noisome pedantry'."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

Samuel Estwick : Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called

H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous 1772 pro-slavery pamphlet (by "a West Indian plantation owner named Estwick").

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Granville Sharp

William Wycherley : Plays

H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations by Hunt and by Lamb.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Leigh Hunt Print: Book

anon : [Deadeye Dick stories]

'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At fourteen he was still enjoying "Deadeye Dick", by twenty he was reading Henry James...He secured a literary education at the Brighton Public Library, and as a professional runner he used prize money to buy Hardy's poems, Shakespeare, Mackail's translation of "The Odyssey", and William Morris's "The Earthly Paradise". In an undemanding job... he read on company time, though there was a row when his supervisor found "Jude the Obscure" on his desk'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edgar Coppard Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [works]

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

Homer : Odyssey

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

William Morris : The Earthly Paradise

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

Thomas Hardy : Jude the Obscure

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

Thomas Percy : annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)

"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of annotated books in the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth, for it contains not only the notes of the current owner in 1813, John Haslemere, and those of his predecessor Richard Wright, but also notes transcribed from another copy that had been annotated by George Steevens who had himself collected notes from yet another annotated by Thomas Percy and William Oldys."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Steevens

William Oldys : annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Steevens

T. Livii Patavini : Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia

Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on it in St Augustine's De Civitate Dei; "Harvey read the City of God not on its own but together with its almost equally vast Renaissance companion, the commentary by Juan Luis Vives ..."

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

St Augustine : De Civitate Dei

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Juan Luis Vives : Commentary to St Augustine, De Civitate Dei

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Lambert Daneau : Politicorum aphorismorum silva

Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading of Lambert Daneau's Silva "of political aphorisms" (1583), "a now forgotten work by a Calvinist minister chiefly remembered for his unsuccesful attempts to impose a natural science based on the Bible on the Protestant curriculum, and a church order based on the 'Genevan Inquisition' on the liberal citizens and professors of Leiden." Continues: "Harvey's copy of Daneau has so far evaded discovery, but his references are so frequent and precise as to make it clear that thet were not conventional. He read the work as soon as it appeared, excitedly referring to its newness, and often praised it as a source of pungent and precise political axioms."

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : The Art of War

Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotation, of Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

George Gascoigne : The Posies

[MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but did marre all. Woomen loue men: & care not for pore harts, that cannot bestead them. Especially at the returne of his ritual, her Secretarie; it imported him to empooue himself more, then before; & not to languish like a milkstop, or to play the pore snake vpon himself. Ladie Elinor woold haue liked the man and woold haue maintained his possession by force of armes, & with braue encounters beat his enimie owt of the field.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

: Times Literary Supplement, The

'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do." And that same week, she is agonizing over "one slight snub" in "The Times Literary Supplement".'

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

Walter Scott : [novels]

'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always excepting Scott's novels, which we loved.'

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

William Shakespeare : King Lear

'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in King Lear. For if bad Edmund was a Natural Son, presumably Good Edgar must have been an Un-natural son; and what on earth could that be?'

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

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which did not help me much; but for caul it gave fillet, and of course a fillet was a string bag. How very odd. Then someone gave me a present of Esmond; but my mother said I was not to read it, because parts of it were "not very nice". Of course I wanted to find out what was not nice about it; so, by a quibble, I decided that I might read all that I could manage without cutting the pages. With industry and perseverance this meant practically all of it, though the pages were not cut for many a long year. But I could never discover what was wrong with it'.

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

William Makepeace Thackeray : Henry Esmond

'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which did not help me much; but for caul it gave fillet, and of course a fillet was a string bag. How very odd. Then someone gave me a present of Esmond; but my mother said I was not to read it, because parts of it were 'not very nice'. Of course I wanted to find out what was not nice about it; so, by a quibble, I decided that I might read all that I could manage without cutting the pages. With industry and perseverance this meant practically all of it, though the pages were not cut for many a long year. But I could never discover what was wrong with it'.

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so familiar and cousinly. Surely no-one, who had not Darwin or Wedgwood blood in their veins, could be as cross as Mr John Knightley... it is obvious, too, that there is some strain of the Woodhouses of Hartfield in us...'

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

Thomas Bewick :

'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying on the sofa between the dining-room windows with the peacock blue serge curtains, and wishing passionately that I could have been Mrs Bewick.'

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

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but one was never able to read more than two or three consecutive lines without stopping to discuss exactly what the words meant; or, alternatively, for her to give messages to Janet.'

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

: The Guardian

'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which shows how indispensable a duty forgiveness is and the last how much mankind must be delighted with the prospect of the happiness of a future state.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Clarissa Harlowe" to me.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Unknown

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

[while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Harlowe' - "Oh: may the Supreme Being give me Grace to lead my life in such a manner as my Exit may in some respect be like that Divine Creature."

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Book

: unknown sermon

'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'

Unknown

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

: The Freeholder

'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Serial / periodical

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it must be allowed it is too prolix. I think the author keeps up the character of every person in all places; and as to the manner of its ending, I like it better than if it had terminated in more happy circumstances.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Peggy Turner Print: Book

Alexander Macaulay : A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use

[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is reference to another medical work 'An Essay on The Action of Medicines in the system, or: on the Mode in which Therapeutic Agents introduced in the Stomack ... awarded ... Frederick William [Headland] ...'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island

'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave him the face of our own Blind Man' [seen regularly in Cambridge and looking "most evil"]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [Histories]

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer :

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

Walter Scott : [novels]

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

(ed.) Thomas Percy : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Darwin Print: Book

Stendhal (pseud -Marie-Henri Beyle) : Le Rouge et le Noir

'[Gwen Raverat's father] was disgusted by Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" when I lent it to him; though I am still surprised that he did not appreciate the romantic fire which lies beneath Julien Sorel's somewhat unscrupulous methods of getting on in the world'.

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

Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Daisy Chain

'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story about Mohammedans or Chinese'.

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

Susan Warner : The Wide Wide World

'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story about Mohammedans or Chinese'.

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

Robert Browning : Saul

'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'

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

: Bible, The

'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'

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

Arnold Bennett : 'New Age' articles

'[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had asked for. He said it would be ridiculous not to reissue a selection from them as a book.'

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

Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Algernon Methuen Marshall Print: Book

'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes :

'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.'

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

Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve : [unknown]

'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'

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

unknown : 'Kestner letters'

'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'

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

Franz Liszt : [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying Dutchman]

'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'

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

Franz Liszt : [article on Meyerbeer]

'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Die Wahlverwandtschaften

'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'

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

Denis Diderot : Le Nevue de Rameau

'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'

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

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

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Great Hoggarty Diamond

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Gross Cophta

'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing'

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

Thomas Moore : Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan

'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'

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

possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz : [if this Gotz, then poetry]

'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Der Burgergeneral

'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'

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

Benedictus de Spinoza : Ethics

'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'

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

Carl Eduard Vehse : Der Hof zu Weimar

'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'.

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

Heinrich Heine : "Donna Clara"

'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'.

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

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice'

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

Heinrich Heine : poems

'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

'Read Laocoon'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wilhelm Meister'.

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is well adapted to rouse an interest both in the classics and in the study of art'.

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

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.

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

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi : Briefe Uber Spinoza

'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Nathan der Weise

'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.

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

William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar

'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine style of this play and its vigorous moderation compared with Romeo and Juliet'.

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

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm

''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Italianische Reise

'Began the Italianische Reise.'

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

Fanny Lewald : Wandlungen

'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Italianische Reise

'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'

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

William Shakespeare : Henry IV

'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'

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

Johannes Scherr : Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'

'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'.

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

George Henry Lewes : [a farce]

'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'.

Unknown

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

Euripides : Iphigenia

'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of "Iphigenia"'.

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

William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of Richard the 3rd and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of Iphigenia'.

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

William Shakespeare : Henry IV, Part II

'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Hermann and Dorothea

'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.

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

various : The Leader

'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.

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

various : Athenaeum

'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.

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

Torquato Tasso : unknown

'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.

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

William Shakespeare : As You Like It

'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre

'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'.

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

Heinrich Heine : Die Gotter im Exil

'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.

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

Heinrich Heine : [poems]

'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.

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

William Shakespeare : King Lear

'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [discourse on Shakespeare]

'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : [on Spinoza]

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

George Henry Lewes : [draft of Life of Goethe]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book

William Shakespeare : The Taming of the Shrew

'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'.

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

Heinrich Heine : De l'Allemagne

'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Dichtung und Wahrheit

'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.

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

Heinrich Heine : Der Salon

'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.

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

Thomas [?] Knight : [studies of Shakespeare]

'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud Heine's "Salon". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'.

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

William Shakespeare : Coriolanus

'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'

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

Adolf Stahr : Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten

'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'

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

Heinrich Heine : [on German philosophy]

'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'

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

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'

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

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare : Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel

'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespear's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'

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

[Dr] Fischer : [a pamphlet]

'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'.

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

George Henry Lewes : book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe

'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, book M.S.

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.

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

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure

'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.

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

unknown : Hamburgische Briefe

'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : West-Ostliche Divan

'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'.

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

William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream

'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust

'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's "Ein Jahr in Italien". The description of Florence excellent'.

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

Adolf Stahr : Ein Jahr in Italien

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

Georg Gottfried Gervinus : [on Shakespeare]

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Romische Elegien

'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Venetian Epigrams

'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.

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

William Shakespeare : A Winter's Tale

'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads

'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'.

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

Karl Eduard Vehse : probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Reformation

'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'.

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

William Shakespeare : Richard III

'G. read Richard III'.

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'.

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

George Henry Lewes : part of the MS of his Life of Goethe

'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book

Nathaniel Wraxall : Historical Memoirs

'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'.

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

George Henry Lewes : MS of his Life of Goethe

'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book

William Shakespeare : Venus and Adonis

'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.

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

William Shakespeare (and others) : The Passionate Pilgrim

'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G. who has written in his Goethe that Shakspeare has left no line in praise of a contemporary. [inserted later: (G. writes that this sonnet is Barnwell's)]'

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

William Shakespeare : Two Gentlemen of Verona

'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging pardon where he has no longer any hope of gaining his ends, says: "All that was mine in Silvia I give the"! - Silvia standing by'.

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

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

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

William Shakespeare : The Tempest

'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"'

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

[various] : The Leader

'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.

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

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

'Read "Macbeth".'

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

William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet

'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'

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

anon : Nibelungen Lied

'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'

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

unknown : [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?]

'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

Johannes Scherr : [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur?

'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur'

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

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe : Reineke Fuchs

'Began "Reineke Fuchs"'

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

Eberhard Schrader : [German Mythology]

'Began Schrader's German Mythology'

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

Herbert Spencer : The Genesis of Science

'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.'

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

William Shakespeare : Henry V

'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.

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

William Shakespeare : Henry VIII

'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.

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

William Shakespeare : Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3

'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.

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

William Shakespeare : Richard II

'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.

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

Cumming : unknown

'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'.

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

Homer : Iliad, book II

'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the Odyssey" and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder". I began the second Book of "the Iliad" in Greek this morning'.

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

George Sand : Lucrezia Floriani

'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.

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

Sophocles : Antigone

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

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

P. von Bohlen : Genesis

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

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

Emanuel Swedenborg : unknown

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

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

George Meredith : The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment

'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'.

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

Charles Kingsley : The Greek Heroes

'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.

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

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis : [history of German Protestantism - title unclear]

'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.

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

William Heinrich (?) Riehl : unknown

'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'.

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

David Masson : [essay on the Life of Chatterton]

'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.

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

David Masson : 'The Three Devils'

'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856

Richard Chenevix Trench : An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world

'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais : M?moires contre Goezman

'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.

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

Henri Milne-Edwards : [work on Zoology]

'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.

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

Henri Milne-Edwards : [work on Zoology]

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

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

Harriet Martineau : [article on Missions in the Westminster Review]

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

various : [articles in the National]

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

W.H. Harvey : The Sea-side Book

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

unknown : The Lover's Seat

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

Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau : [zoology]

'have now taken up Quatrefages again.'

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

Honore de Balzac : The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.'

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

Sophocles : Ajax

'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'

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

Harriet Martineau : History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854

'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'

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

Edmund Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France

'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'

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

Sara Hennell : Christianity and Infidelity

'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".'

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

Agnes Catlow : Popular Field Botany

'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'

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

Sophocles : Oedipus Rex

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [Poems]

'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History".'

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

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.'

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

John William Draper : Human Physiology

'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'read "Emma" in the evening.'

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

George Eliot (pseud) : Janet's Repentance

'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Manuscript: MS of own work

Aeschlyus : Agamemnon

'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.

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

Henry Thomas Buckle : History of Civilization in England

'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'

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

Bernard de Montfaucon : Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys

[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into inside back cover with some notes eg "'ong gloves 2-16'.

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

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Die Familie

'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.

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

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Land Und Volk

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

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft

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

George Eliot (pseud.) : Adam Bede

'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History of Thirty Years' Peace" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Manuscript: MS of own novel

Aeschlyus : Choephorae

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

anon. : [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]

'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunted Man".'.

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

Charles Dickens : The Haunted Man

'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunted Man".'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Unknown, could have been book or serial

Aeschlyus : Eumenides

'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.

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

William Wordsworth :

'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.

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

Harriet Martineau : History of the Thirty Years Peace

'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fatiguing and not instructive. But her history of the Reform Movement is very interesting'.

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

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'

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

Aeschlyus [?] : Prometheus

'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.

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

Horace : The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos

'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'

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

Thomas Carlyle : Frederick the Great

'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'

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

unknown : [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"]

'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'

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

James Duncan : Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, The

Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on specific local journeys e.g. Cupar to Perth, dated '10 Dec 1816' or in an area 'Southside of the Tay'.

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

Flouren : [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]

'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'

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

Auguste Comte : Catechism Of Positive Religion, The

'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "Tom Brown's School Days" with much disappointment. It is an unpleasant, unveracious book'.

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

Thomas a Kempis : Imitation of Christ, The (?)

'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'

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

John Bunyan : unknown

'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.'

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

unknown : [Life of Francois de Sales]

'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'

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

Margot Asquith : Diaries

Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquith: An Autobiography (1922), 70-73: 'Out of all my diaries I have hardly been able to quote fifty pages, for on re-reading them I find they are not only full of Cabinet secrets but jerky, disjointed and dangerously frank.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margot Asquith Manuscript: Codex

Mariano Vasi : Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ?

[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376-7 against the text line 'L'Eglise de St. Francois' is the ms note 'Jan 30 again'.

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased with Henry C. - Edmund objected to, as cold & formal. - Henry C.'s going off with Mrs R. - at such a time, when so much in love with Fanny, thought unnatural by Edward.'

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

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book

Jane Austen : Mansfield Park

'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. better, & having finished the 1st vol. - flattered herself that she had got through the worst.'

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

James Hall : Travels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides: containing hints and improvements in agriculture and commerce...

[Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after the text 'His wit seemed to be incorporated with his very turn of thinking and manner of viewing arguments and objects' is followed by the ms note 'This I can aver; which dis...[?] one often. I love instantaneous wit! not wit, like forced asparagus at Christmas!'; p. 167 after the text 'A person, it seems, was carrying, from the east coast of Fife, an hundred rabbits, to occupy a warren in the West Highlands' is the ms note 'a very drole adventure'.

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

Jane Austen : Emma

'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to Ly Catherine & Mr Collins.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read "Pride and Prejudice" I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Langhorne Clemens Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'

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

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Print: Book

Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility

'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'] 'This accomplished, my next duties were to sweep the floor and dust the counter and desks in the front shop, in the course of which an occasional brief pause on my work was made that I might take a peep at the contents of some book, the title of which took my fancy.'

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

[unknown] : [various English periodicals]

'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies of "Blackwood"; and at the contents of some of those I often contrived to get a surreptitious "read".'

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

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

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

G H Girle : [memoirs]

'Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in "Tait", and one day, at his request, I carried the MS to the warehouse, but it did not appear in the magazine. He read it, however, to the boys of "George Heriot's Hospital", of which great institution he was one of the "Governors" and it was printed for private circulation.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G H Girle Manuscript: Sheet, Unpublished memoirs

William Cobbett : Advice to young men

'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were "Cobbett's advice to young men", and Charles Knight's "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties"; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read "Tait's Magazine" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the "Waverley novels" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, "Guy Mannering", "The Heart of Midlothian", "The Bride of Lammermoor" and "St Ronan's Well". "Waverley", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'

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

George L. Craik : Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties

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

William Tait : Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

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

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

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

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

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

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

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

Walter Scott : St Ronan's Well

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

Walter Scott : Waverley

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

John Galt : Lives of the players

'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of the players", and once every year I peruse "Sir Andrew Wyllie"; also that most realistic production, the "Annals of the Parish": both books undeserving of the neglect which has befallen them.'

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

John Galt : Sir Andrew Wyllie

'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of players", and once every year I peruse "Sir Andrew Wyllie"; also that most realistic production, the "Annals of the Parish": both books undeserving of the neglect which has befallen them.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

John Galt : Annals of the Parish

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book

Samuel Smiles : [biographies of men]

'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tastes lying largely in the direction of biography ... series of books of Mr Smiles, is still worth the attention of young men in search of wholesome reading.'

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

James Lackington : [autobiography]

'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and instructive work I still possess and read occasionally.'

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

James Hogg : Shepherd's Calendar

'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many opportunities of hearing much about him.'

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

[n/a] : Bentley's Miscellany

'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'

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

Robert Chambers : Chambers's Journal

'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavouring as I walked over the grass to read a story in one of the volumes of "Chambers's Journal", then of a somewhat unwielding size, I was stopped by two gentlemen, one of whom asked what I was reading...'

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

William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard

'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'

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

Mrs Johnstone : The Schoolmaster

'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened a little. I then obtained access to a greater variety, and, as I well remember, greatly enjoyed reading some numbers of a periodical called "The Schoolmaster", edited by Mr Johnstone, or, to speak more correctly, by Mrs Johnstone.'

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

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse : "Vier Neue Novellen"

'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'

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

Henri Marc-Bonnet : "Histoire des Ordres Religieux"

'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.

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

T.A. Trollope : La Beata

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

Franco Sachetti : Novelle

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

Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics

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

Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino

'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.

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

W.G. Tenneman : Manual of the History of Philosophy

'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.

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

unknown : Le Moyen Age Illustre

'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.'

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

unknown : [article in the Athenaeum]

'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the "Monks of the West".'

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

Charles Montalambert : The Monks of the West

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

Audin de Rians : [Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]

'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.

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

[n/a] : The Spectator

'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.

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

[n/a] : The Athenaeum

'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.

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

Auguste Comte : [on the Middle Ages]

'Read Comte on the Middle Ages'

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

[n/a] : Cornhill Magazine

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

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

Anthony Trollope : Orley Farm

'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'

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

Ernest Renan : ?tudes d?histoire religieuse

'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'

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

Virgil : Eclogues

'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'

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

Johann Buhle : Textbook on the History of Philosophy

'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'.

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

George Henry Lewes : [MS article on Mad Dogs]

'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article

Henry Hallam : [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages]

'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'.

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

Edward Gibbon : [on revival of Greek learning]

'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'

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

Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermons]

'Savonarola's Sermons'

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

Girolamo Savonarola : Discourse on Government

'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'

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

Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermon on the Epistle of John]

'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'

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

Girolamo Savonarola : [Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus]

'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'

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

Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino

'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'

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

Anton Francesco Doni : I Marmi

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

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

Giovanni Boccaccio : [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]

'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.

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

anon : Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback

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

Jacopo Nardi (probably) : unknown

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

Edward Bulwer Lytton : Rienzi

'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'.

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

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'

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

Francesco Sachetti : [stories]

'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'

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

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.

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

Burlamacchi : Life of Savonarola

'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'.

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

[probably] Luigi Pulci : [if this Pulci, poetry]

'began Pulci'.

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

Giovanni (?) Villani : Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]

'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'

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

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

Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art

'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'

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

Marullus : unknown

'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'

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

Joseph Pettigrew : Medical Superstitions

'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'

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

Girolamo Tiraboschi : [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana

'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.

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

Girolamo Tiraboschi : [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana

'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'

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

Daniel Rock : Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.

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

Manni : [Life of Burchiello]

'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'.

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

Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art

'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.

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

unknown : [article in the National]

'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'.

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

Daniel Rock : Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass

'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.

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

Anna Jameson : Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts

'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.

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

Marchese : Storia di San Marco

'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.

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

unknown : [article on Mormons in Westminster Review]

'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'

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

unknown : Archivo Storico

'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.

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

Vespasiano da Bisticci : [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV,

'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.

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

Pierre Louis Ginguene : unknown

'Read Ginguene in the evening'.

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

Charles Lewes : [compositions]

'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, compositions

unknown : Nerli

'Read Nerli'.

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

Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot : [probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789

'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.

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

Niccolo Machiavelli : The Prince (probably)

'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.

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

Pasquale Villari : unknown

'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.

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

Ludovico Antonio Muratori : unknown

'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.

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

Poliziano : Letters

'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'

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

Donato Giannotti : Della repubblica fiorentina

'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'

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

Cicero : De Officiis

'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'

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

Francesco Petrarch : [Letters]

'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'

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

John Selden : Titles of Honour

'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"'

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

Amans-Alexis Monteil : [presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation]

'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'

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

Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger : La Tancia

'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'

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

Pierre Louis Ginguene : [possibly] Histoire litteraire d'Italie

'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'

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

George Lillie Craik : History of English Literature and the English Language

'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'

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

Juvenal : [a satire]

'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

Epictetus : Enchiridion

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

Luigi Pulci : [unknown]

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

[unknown] : Canti Carnascialeschi

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

Manni : Veglie Piacevole

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

Theocritus : [unknown]

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

Juvenal : [Sixth Satire]

'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'

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

Marco Lastri : Osservatore Fiorentino

'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'

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

Goldwin Smith : [answer to Mansel]

'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel'

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

Bekker (or Becker?) : Charikles

''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'

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

Benedetto Varchi : [History of Florence]

'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'

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

Humphrey Hody : De Graecis Illustribus

'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...'

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

Scipioni Ammirato : Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini

'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.

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

Ludovico Antonio Muratori : [unknown, on the Confraternita]

'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.

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

Franco Sachetti : [probably] Novelle

'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'

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

Francesco Filelfo : [Letters]

'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'

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

Benedetto Varchi : [History of Florence]

'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'

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

Girolamo Savonarola : De Veritate Profetica

'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'

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

Conyers Middleton : Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism

'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'

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

Girolamo Savonarola : Compendium Revelationum

'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'

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

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren : [on the XVth Century]

'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'.

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

Poliziano : Lamia

'Read Politian's Lamia'

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

Malmantile : [unknown]

'Read the Malmantile'

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

Luigi Pulci : [unknown -novel]

'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'

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

Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) : [possibly a story from Le Cene]

'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'

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

Emile Du Bois Reymond : [book on Johannes Mueler]

'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: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : Istorie fiorentine

'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: 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

Charlotte Mew : The Farmer's Bride

'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their "sexual sincerity". Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always. A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.'

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

Samuel Warren : Diary of a late physician

'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 it 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

Samuel Warren : Ten thousand a year

'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

Charlotte Mew : "Sea Love"

'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s "Sea Love", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'

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

Charlotte Mew : "Madeleine in Church"

'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'.

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon

[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

George Finlay : A History of Greece

'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 Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : La Mandragola

'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'

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

Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena : La Calandra

'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'

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

George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola

'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

Luigi Pulci : [probably] Morgante

'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two.'

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

John Stuart Mill : Conquest in America, The

'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'

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

Heinrich von Sybel : History and Literature of the Crusades

'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Casa Guidi Windows

'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to be the true relation of the religious mind to the Past.'

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

Alexandre Dumas (pere) : The Count of Monte Cristo

[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'

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

unknown : [books on medieval Greece]

'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been running through Wordsworth's "Greece" and studying the geography'

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

Christopher Wordsworth : Greece

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

Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard : Poetes Latins de la Decadence

'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.

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

Juvenal : [unknown]

'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.

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

Meiner : [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola]

'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". They are excellent. They have German industry and are succinctly and clearly written'.

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

Girolamo Savonarola : Processi

'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.

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

Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron

'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'

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

Niccolo Machiavelli : Il Principe

'Began "Il Principe".'

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

Poliziano : Stanze

'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion of Tennyson's "Palace of Art" in many points'.

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

Poliziano : Orfeo

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

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'

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

Girolamo Savonarola : Compendium Revelationum

'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'

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

George Eliot (pseud.) : Romola

'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel

George Henry Lewes : Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science

'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864

Theodor Mommsen : [one of his Roman history works]

'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.

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

William Wetmore Story : Roba di Roma

'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.

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

Henry George Liddell : A History of Rome

'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.

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

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'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

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

Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler : [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

George Eliot (pseud.) : The Spanish Gipsy

'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourages me'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Sheet, MS of own work

[probably] William Prescott : [unknown]

'I read Prescott again and made notes'

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

Aeschlyus : [unknown]

'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'

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

Philip Wentworth Buckham : Theatre of the Greeks

'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'

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

Julius Leopold Klein : Geschichte des Dramas

'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'

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

Samuel Bamford : Passages in the Life of a Radical

'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.

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

John Stuart Mill : Principles of Political Economy

'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.

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

Auguste Comte : The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.

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

[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

[possibly] William Blackstone : [Commentaries on the laws of England?]

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

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

unknown : [English history in reign of George III]

'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'

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

William Shakespeare : King John

'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'

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

Aeschylus : unknown

'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'.

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

George Henry Lewes : [article on Grote's Plato]

'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article

Aeschylus : Agamemnon

'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'

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

Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu : Contes populaires des anciens Bretons

'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".'

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

Felicia Dorothea Browne : War and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fifteen

'[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Heber

Lady Caroline Lamb : [letters and verses]

'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh Manuscript: Unknown

Fawcett : Economic Condition of the Working Classes

'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'.

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

John Stuart Mill : On Liberty

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

David Friedrich Strauss : Life of Jesus [second version]

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

unknown Neale : History of the Puritans

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

: Bible

'Reading the Bible'

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

Henry Hallam : The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay : [perhaps] History of England [?]

'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'.

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

John Stuart Mill : A System of Logic

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

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

Theocritus : unknown

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

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

unknown : [English History and Law]

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

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

George Eliot (pseud.) : Felix Holt

'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel

Friedrich Bouterwek : Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

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

Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : [unknown - on Spain]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

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

Georges Bernard Depping : [unknown - on Spain]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

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

Juan Antonio Llorente : [Spanish history]

'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.

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

Georges Depping : Juifs au Moyen Age

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

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

Geoffrey Chaucer : [unknown]

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

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

unknown : [works on music and acoustics]

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

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

Ernest Renan : Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiques

'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.

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

George Ticknor : History of Spanish Literature

'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.

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

Cornewall Lewis : Astronomy of the Ancients

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

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

Simon Ockley : History of the Saracens

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

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

unknown : [books on Astronomical Geography]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

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

unknown : [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

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

unknown : Los Judios en Espana

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

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

Thomas Percy (ed.) : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

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

unknown : Isis

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

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

Homer : Iliad

'Reading the Iliad, book III'.

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

William Henry Prescott : History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The

'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.

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

Ernest Renan : Averroes et l'Averroisme

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

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

Eliakim Carmoly : Histoire des M?decins Juifs

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

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

unknown : First Principles

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

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

George Henry Lewes : [letter]

'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Letter

Salomon Munk : Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe

'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.

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

unknown Guillemin : [presumably astronomy text]

'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.

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

John Lubbock : Prehistoric Times

'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'.

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

Lucretius : De Rerum Natura

'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.

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

Homer : Iliad

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

John Milton : Samson Agonistes

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

Thomas Warton : History of English Poetry, The

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

George Grote : unknown

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

Marcus Aurelius : unknown

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

Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova

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

Auguste Comte : Syst?me de politique positive

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

Edwin Guest : History of English Rhythms, A

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

Frederick Denison Maurice : Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry

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

unknown : [philology books]

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

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

Homer : Iliad

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

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

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

[Mrs] Grey : [Etruscan subjects]

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

George Dennis : Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The

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

Ben Jonson : Alchemist, The

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

Ben Jonson : Volpone

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

John Bright : [Speeches]

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

George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan

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

John Bright : [4th speech on India]

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

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

unknown : [Italian story]

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

unknown : Spectator, The

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

W Thomson : [essay in Revue des Cours]

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

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.

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

Theodor Mommsen : History of Rome

'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.

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

Matthew Arnold : [poems]

'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the later'.

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

John Bright : [speech on Ireland and Church Establishment]

'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: Book

[n/a] : Spectator, The

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

Hermann von Helmholtz : [book on music]

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

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

[unknown] : [books on plants]

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

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

Lucretius : De Rerum Natura

'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'

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

Victor Hugo : L'Homme Qui Rit

'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'

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

Willhelmine von Hillern : Ein Arzt der Seele

'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'

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

Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard : Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise

'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Comines, Villon'

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

Smith : Universal History

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

Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe

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

Michael Drayton : Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy

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

Michael Drayton : Polyolbion

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

George Grote : [probably] History of Greece

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

Louis Reybaud : Etudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes modernes

'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes'

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

Plato : Republic

'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'

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

Emile Littre : [on Comte]

'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'

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

Theocritus : 22nd Idyll

'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.

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

Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve : [unknown]

'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.

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

Samuel Dickson : Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine

'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'.

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

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'.

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

Pierre Victor Renouard : History of Medicine

'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'

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

unknown : [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges]

'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.

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

unknown : [Life of or by William Cullen]

'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.

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

Rutherford Russell : History and Heroes of Medicine

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

Aristophanes : Ecclesiazusae

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

William Shakespeare : Macbeth

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

Bekker : Charikles

'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.

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

John Mandeville (pseud.) : Travels

'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'

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

Max Muller : History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature

'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.

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

William Lecky : History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne

'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.

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

Herbert Spencer : [probably] Principles of Psychology, The

'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.

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

Charles Dickens : Edwin Drood

'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'

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

[probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti : [poems]

'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'.

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

William Mason : Poems (third volume)

The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: 'Have you ever seen the 3d vol. of Mason's Poems, published two years ago? I never did till I came here; and I have found some sweet things in them, which I have been reading this morning in the flower-garden facing the cinerary urn Lord Harcourt has erected to his memory [goes on to transcribe final six lines of sonnet written by Mason 'in his 70th year'].'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: G., Dowager Lady Spencer Print: Book

William R. Grove : On the Correlation of Physical Forces

'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'.

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

John Gibson Lockhart : Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'.

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

James Anthony Froude : History of England

'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'.

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

Auguste Comte : [correspondence with Valat]

'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'.

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

Johann Wolfgang Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.

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

Friedrich August Wolf : Prolegomena ad Homerum

'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.

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

Jean Paul (pseud.) : Leben des Quintus Fixlein

'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.

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

George Grote : [on Sicilian History]

'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.

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

Aristotle : Poetics

'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'

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

George Henry Lewes : "Principles of Success in Literature

'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".'

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

George Henry Lewes : [Social Function...]

'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.

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

George Henry Lewes : Physical Basis of Mind, The

'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.

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

: [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes]

'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, journal

George Henry Lewes : [journal, 1874]

'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown, journal

George Henry Lewes : [various works Eliot was revising]

'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'.

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

George Henry Lewes : Spanish Drama, The

'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama'

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

George Henry Lewes : [first article on Goethe]

'Read my darling's first article on Goethe'

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

George Henry Lewes : [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism

'Reading Problem III'

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

unknown : Times, The

'unable to read anything except "Times".'

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

W. Kingdom Clifford : First and Last Castrophe, The

'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'

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

John Stuart Mill : [on socialism]

'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'

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

Herbert Spencer : Principles of Psychology

'Read Spencer's Psychology'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

unknown : [on colour sense]

'read on the colour-sense'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Hugo Magnus : Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes

'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Allen Grant : Colour Sense: its Origin and Development, The

'[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

George Henry Lewes : [on language]

'read my darling's M.S. on Language'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Unknown

Alexander Bain : [on nervous mechanism]

'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Foster : [on nervous mechanism]

'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [article on Philosophy in France]

'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps) : [perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the Systematization of Mathematics

'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Alexander Herzen : La Condizione fisica della Coscienza

'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Homer : Iliad

[Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [essay on Dwarfs and Giants]

'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Alexander Bain (?) : unknown

'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve : unknown

'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Homer : [book IV - of Iliad?]

'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Michael Foster : Textbook of Physiology

'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Grote : [probably] History of Greece

'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Biographical History of Philosophy, A

'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe, The

'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Frederick Pollock : [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]

'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Edward Caird : [probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, The

'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : Life and Works of Goethe

'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Sully : [article on G.H. Lewes]

'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: proof of article

Voltaire (pseud.) : Candide

'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Plato : Republic,The

'Reading Plato - Republic'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Merritt (Mrs) : [recollections of her husband]

'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]

unknown : Hebrew texts

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

unknown : [Algebra]

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

[Read] 'Purgatorio'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Grote : History of Greece

'Read Grote on the Sophists'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George Henry Lewes : [letters to George Eliot]

'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Manuscript: Letter

Albrecht Weber : History of Indian Literature, The

'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Monier Monier Williams : [presumably work on Sanskrit]

'Finished Monier Williams'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

George John Romanes : Candid Examination of Theism, A

[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Cornelis Petrus Tiele : Outlines of the History of Religion

[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, The

[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

John Hill Burton : history of the reign of Queen Anne, A

[Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Frances Anne Kemble : Records of a Girlhood

'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

unknown : [Jewish chronicles]

'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Unknown

anon. : Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The

'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical with Mount Hor'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

anon. : Prose Edda, The

'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Thomas Malthus : unknown

'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Victor Hugo : Ruy Blas

'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

[probably] Archibald Henry Sayce : [if this Sayce then work of Assyriology]

[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi

[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert : Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die

'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Auguste Comte : [unknown]

'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Hermann and Dorothea

'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Alfred Lord Tennyson : [poems including 'The First Quarrel']

'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Margaret Oliphant : My faithful Johnny

'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Frederic William Henry Myers : Wordsworth

'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book

Madame du Deffand : Letters (2 vols)

M. G. Lewis to Lady Charlotte Bury, 9 December 1810: 'I have galloped through two volumes of Madame du Deffand's Letters, and with much amusement, though the anecdotes are in themselves of no great value'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: M. G. Lewis Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be writ with a malice more than human, and has surely something infernal in it. It is surprising, that a man can divest himself of the tender sentiments of nature so far, as deliberately to give anguish and confusion to beings of his own kind".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Singer Rowe Print: Unknown

John Locke : Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity

[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract of Locke's which you mention - but I have redde it formerly, though I fear to little purpose since it is forgotten. - & have always understod that and Butler's Analogy to be the best treatises of the kind... Of the Scriptures themselves I have ever been a reader and admirer as compositions, particularly the Arab-Job - and parts of Isaiah - and the Song of Deborah'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

J.C. de Sismondi : history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A

[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but writes not history but romance). The best thing of that kind I met by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in old and not "very choice Italian". I forget the title - but it was a history in some thirty tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Catiline's down to Count Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa and Braganza's in Lisbon. I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal, thought it perfection'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Jean Charles de Sismondi : Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Watson : [book on Philip of Spain]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

William Coxe : History of the House of Austria

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

William Coxe : Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Rene Aubert de Vertot : [book(s) on Revolutions]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

[unknown] : [30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Robert Southey : Roderick

[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can be - which considering how I dislike that school I wonder at. However, so it is. If he had never written anything else, he might safely stake his fame on the last of the Goths'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles

'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, "with a miserable smile", the description of the wayward bridegroom'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book

unknown Darwin : [article on 'Diseased Volition']

'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Unknown

John Henry, Cardinal Newman : [theological works]

'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal Newman, the witty novels of George Meredith, the "Imaginary Portraits" of Pater, the rapturous poetry of Swinburne and Fitzgerald's sensual translation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

George Meredith : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

Walter Pater : Imaginary Portraits

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

Algernon Charles Swinburne : [unknown]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) : Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ellingham Brooks Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : Works

Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was once in existence a copy of Speght's edition of Chaucer, 1598, with manuscript notes by Gabriel Harvey, one of those notes being in the following terms: -- "The younger sort take much delight in Shakespear's Venus and Adonis, but his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark have it in them to please the wiser sort."'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

: Roman texts

'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron Walden, assiduously studying not only the greatest of the old Roman writers, but renaissance writers such as Sturm, Manutius, Osorius, Sigonius and Buchanan. He had given more time to Cicero than to all the rest put together, yet sometimes he had dropped Cicero on Friendship to take up Osorius on Glory'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sturm : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Manutius : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Osorius : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sigonius : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Buchanan : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : Works including On Friendship

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Osorius : Works including On Glory

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sambucus : Ciceronianus

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus" of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Ramus : Ciceronianus

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Caesar : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Varro : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sallust : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Pliny : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Columella : unknown

'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Ciceronianus"of Ramus [...] He now read Caesar, Varro, Sallust, Livy, Pliny and Columella, and found merits in all.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Desiderius Erasmus : Parabolae

'[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's sister Mercy, c. Christmas 1574] in mind when in his copy of Erasmus' "Parabolae" to the words "stultus magnifica fortuna iniucunda", he adds the notes, "you knowe, who vsed to write: 'Vnhappy Philip'."'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

anon : Howleglas

'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "Howleglas" now in the Bodleian, in which he wrote the following note, now partly obliterated: '"This Howletglasse, with Skoggin, Skelton, and L[a]zarillo, giuen me at London, of Mr. Spensar xx Decembris [15]78 on condition [that I] shoold bestowe ye reading of them oue[r] before ye first of January [imme]diatly ensuing: otherwise to forfeit unto him my Lucian jn fower uolumes. Whereupon I was ye rather jnduced to trifle away so many howers, as were jdely ouerpassed in running thorowgh ye [foresai]d foolish bookes: wherein methoug[ht] not all fower togither seemed comparable for s[utt]le and crafty feates with Jon Miller, whose witty shiftes, & practises ar reported amongst Skeltons Tales.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Skoggin : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Skelton : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Lazarillo : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

: Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe

Gabriel Harvey's Commonplace Book (Add.Ms., 32, 494 British Museum) contains transcribed quotations from "Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe" (1579).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : Topica

In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the first book of the [italics]Institutes[end italics].'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Hegendorff : Writings on law

In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's "Topica", of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the first book of the "Institutes".'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

unknown : Institutes

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

S. Stefano Guazzo : Civil Conversation

'[Gabriel Harvey] bought and studied Guazzo's [italics]Civil Conversation[end italics] in the early 1580s.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Baldassare Castiglione : The Book of the Courtier

'[Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia show that he studied Castiglione [...] with considerable care [...] In 1572 he acquired [Thomas] Hoby's translation of Castiglione's [italics]Courtier[end italics] and annotated it copiously.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Aristotle : Organon

'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rhetoric". Both Greek texts were copiously annotated and thus indicate that they were carefully studied.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Aristotle : Rhetoric

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Audomarus Talaeus : Academia

'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close associate and disciple of [Peter] Ramus in his programme of teaching reform.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Desiderius Erasmus : Parabolae

'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Desiderius Erasmus : Parabolae

'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

unknown : Italian grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

unknown : Spanish grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

unknown : French grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton : A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies

'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"] are underlinings and comments [on the necessity of patience, Howard's work having contained attacks on Harvey's astrologer brother]'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Jacob Hugkel : Semeiotice

'In 1584 [Gabriel Harvey] had acquired [...] Hugkel's "Semeiotice", 1560, a medical text which bases its diagnoses on Galenic theory and the four humours [...] The inscription on the title-page [...] suggests Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in medicine. He writes in Latin that the volume has not yet been (adequately) read, for its contents are not yet at his fingertips.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

anon : Broadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmaceuticals) of John Hester

'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broadsheet with his signature dated "1588", some manuscript underlinings of various items, and brief comments. The broadsheet lists the pharmaceuticals and chemicals which can be obtained at the shop of John Hester, "practitioner in the art of Distillation"'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet

Desiderius Erasmus : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus] is a large inscription which reads: "Relegi mense Septembri. 1577: Gabriel Harveius".'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Livy : Works

'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Frontinus : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Frontinus : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Frontinus : The stratagemes

'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Thomas Wilson : The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence

'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567), the text recounts God's granting the gift of eloquence [to men] [...] Next to this passage Harvey inscribes his symbol for eloquence, the planetary sign of Mercury.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Thomas Blundevill : The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship

'[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summarize a fairly lengthy textual discussion, e.g., in Thomas Blundevill's "The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship" (1580) [...] On fol.5r Harvey inscribes at the top "How the Rider ought to sitt in his Saddle" [...] and on fol.51v he summarizes with the inscription, "[italics]The parts of the bit[end italics]: as they ar termed by their [italics]proper names[end italics]. Italics indicate Harvey's underlinings.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

A. P. Gasser : Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome

'In A. P. Gasser's "Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome" (1538) purchased by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1576, are brief manuscript characterizations [by Harvey] of some of the historical figures mentioned.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

George North : Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland

'In George North's "Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland" (1561), on sig.G2r next to a textual discussion of the "Swecian Language" and a copy of "The Lordes Prayer" in Swedish, Harvey adds: "The same radical of owre Inglish, & Scottish, notwithstanding sundrie dialects, or idioms, even amongst owrselves".'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Lodovico Domenichi : Facetie, motti, et burle

'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and anecdotes] [...] stimulated Harvey to jot down [in its wide margins] a variety of musings and random philosophical reflections.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Hart : An Orthographie

'An annotated copy of John Hart's "Orthographie" which undoubtedly belonged to [Gabriel] Harvey [...] is replete with his comments on spellings and punctuations [...] On sig. Diiir where the text states "a writing is corrupted when any worde or sillable hath more letters, than are used of voyces in the pronunciation" Harvey cites as examples: "Comptroller, Bloudde, Adde, Speake".'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Battista Guarini : Il Pastor Fido

'In Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido" (1591) [Gabriel] Harvey sometimes places a tiny letter symbol above a textual passage and an explanatory note or translation in the margin text to a notation of the same tiny letter.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sacchi de Platina : Hystoria de Vitis pontificum

'At the end of Sacchi de Platina's "Hystoria de Vitis pontificum" (c.1505) [Gabriel] Harvey adds his index of Popes and page references.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

G. Breule : Praxis Medicinae Theorica

'In [Gabriel Harvey's copy of] G. Breule's "Praxis Medicinae Theorica" (1585) on the front flyleaf is a manuscript index of various medical problems, together with page references.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Joannis Foorth : Synopsis Politica

Virginia F. Stern notes annotations made by Gabriel Harvey in his copy of Joannis Foorth, "Synopsis Politica"(1582).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Florio : Florio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tongues

'The date "1580" is inscribed by [Gabriel] Harvey on sig.Ss3v of the Florio volume ["First Fruites" (1578)] at the "Finis" of the major portion of the text.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : Discorsi ("First Decade")

'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade" of Machiavelli's "Discorsi"'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Francois Rabelais : unknown

'Although he read Rabelais and several other French authors in the original, it is unlikely that [Gabriel] Harvey's mastery of this language approached that of Italian'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Antonio de Corro : Spanish Grammer

'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and Richard Perceval's "Bibliotheca Hispanica"(1591), an English, Spanish, Latin dictionary printed as an adjunct to Corro's grammar.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Richard Perceval : Bibliotheca Hispanica

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John Astley : The Art of Riding

'On sig. AIv of [John] Blundevill, ["The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship"], [Gabriel] Harvey inscribes: "I use Mr Astley [John Astley's "The Art of Riding"(1584)], for the compendious, & fine Art: and Mr Blundevill for the larger & fuller Discourses upon the Art"'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : The Arte of Warre

'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...] Machiavelli (Peter Whitehorne's 1573 translation of the "Arte of Warre"), and Whitehorne's "Certaine wayes for the ordering of Soldiours" (1574).'

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Peter Whitehorne : Certain wayes for the ordering of Soldiours

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Vegetius : unknown

Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading, & long consideration: [...] For the Art, Vegetius, Machiavel & Sutcliff: for Stratagems, Gandino, & Ranzovius: for Fortification, Pyrotechnie, & engins, Tetti, & Digges [Stratioticos]: for the old Roman most worthie Discipline & Action, Caesar: for the new Spanish, & Inglish excellent Discipline & Action, Sir Ro[ger]: Williams.'

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Sutcliff : unknown

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Heinrich Rantzau : Commentarius Bellicus ... praecepta, consilia et stratagemata

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Marco Antonio Gandino : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Carlo Theti : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Digges Stratioticos : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Sir Roger Williams : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Joannis de Sacrobosco : Textus de Sphaera

'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera", Bonetus's "Annuli ... super astrologiam" [...] and Euclid's first book of geometry translated into Latin by Boethius. On the title-page is Harvey's signature and the date "1580", which seems to have been the period for many of his annotations in this volume.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Bonetus de Lates : Annuli ... super astrologiam

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Euclid : First book of geometry

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

John Blagrave : The Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called ... The use of which Jewel ... leadeth ... through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes ...

'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence", [Gabriel] Harvey comments: "An Youth, & no University-man. The more shame for sum Doctors of Universities, that may learn of him".'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Luca Gaurico : Tractatus Astrologicus

'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of city-states and towns, each being illustrated by an astrological diagram. [Gabriel] Harvey read and annotated this volume in 1580'.

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Eunapius : unknown

'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapelus's [i.e Gabriel Harvey's] reading: '"What kinds of unique authors does Eutrapelus read daily? Eunapius, with Tacitus, Philostratus with Julian, Zwinger's "Theatre" with Gandino, Bartas with Rabelais, Theocritus's "Idyll I" with the epitaphs of Bion and Adonis. Three heroic shields (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil) with the "seventh day" of Bartas, Solomon's "Song of Songs" with the Behemoth of Job and the Leviathan"' (translated from Latin).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Tacitus : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Philostratus : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Julian : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Theodore Zwinger : Theatrum

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Theocritus : "Idyll I"

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Bion : epitaphs

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Adonis : epitaphs

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Homer : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Hesiod : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Virgil : unknown

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Solomon : The Song of Songs

''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapelus's [i.e Gabriel Harvey's] reading: '"What kinds of unique authors does Eutrapelus read daily? Eunapius, with Tacitus, Philostratus with Julian, Zwinger's "Theatre" with Gandino, Bartas with Rabelais, Theocritus's "Idyll I" with the epitaphs of Bion and Adonis. Three heroic shields (Homer, Hesiod, Virgil) with the "seventh day" of Bartas, Solomon's "Song of Songs" with the Behemoth of Job and the Leviathan"' (translated from Latin).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Barnabe Barnes : Parthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals, elegies and odes.

'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and Parthenophe" as one of the recently-read books received from [John] Wolfe [publisher for whom Harvey acted as reader].'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Joannes Boccatius : Compendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintum, & jam primum in lucem editum

Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium Romanae historiae" (1535).

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

William Bourne : A Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men and travailers; whereunto is added an Hydrographicall discourse touching the five severall passages to Cattay

Virginia F. Stern notes that, in Gabriel Harvey's copy of William Bourne, "A Regiment for the Sea" (1592; inscribed 1594 by Harvey), 'brown crayon-like horizontal markings emphasize various topics'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

George Buchanan : Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie M.G.B. ... accordyng to the Scottish copie Printed at Strivilyng by Robert Lekpreuik

Virginia F. Stern notes 'Many underlinings and MS. notes' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of George Buchanan, "Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie" (1571), as well as comment '"A fine Discourse of Buchanan, but bitter in his Invective veine"'.

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum

Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum

Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'

Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Cicero : M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quinctum Fratrem, Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii

Virginia F. Stern notes that in Gabriel Harvey's 1563 copy of Cicero, "Epistolae ad Atticum" 'The glossary is divided [by Harvey, using characteristic shorthand symbols as well as Latin] into eight portions for daily reading [...] A number of Harvey's signatures and copious annotations throughout the volume.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey Print: Book

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : Bring flowers

[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ To wreathe the cup ere the wine is poured;/ Bring flowers! they are springing in wood and vale,/ Their breath floats out on the southern gale; ...' [total = 6 x 6 lines verses]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anonymous : The season of death

[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath/And stars to set - but all/ Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh Death ...' (total - 5 x 4 line verses)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Felicia Hemans : The voice of spring

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me long;/ I come o'er the mountains with light and song!/ Ye may trace my steps o'er the wakening earth,/ By the winds which tell of the violet's birth ...' (total = 7 x 6 line verses)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : When coldness wraps this suffering clay

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay/ Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?/ It cannot die, it cannot stay/ But leaves its darken'd dust behind ...' [total = 4 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Epitaph on an Idiot

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heaven/ And God but little asks, where little's given/The wise Creator has for thee in store/ Great joys!-what wise man can ask more?'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[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

[James?] Beresford : [On vaccination]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart writing on the Cowpax talks/ gravely of a most horrible case of vaccination/ viz, of a child who in consepquence of it, ran upon/ all fours, bellowing like a cow and butting/ like a bull thus reallizing (says the author/ who quotes the above) the apprehensions of/ the author of Vaccine Phantasmogoria and who exclaims/ O Mosely thy books mighty phantasies rousing/ Full oft make me quake for my heart's dearest treasures/ ...' [total = 2 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[James?] Montgomery : Night

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors close/ To gather round an aching breast/ The curtain of repose ...'[total= 6x 6line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe walketh on ye earthe glyttering lyke golde/ The yerthe goeth to ye yerthe sooner than it wolde/ The yerthe buildeth upon the yerthe castelles & towers/ the yerthe sayeth to the yerthe, all things are ours'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [Translation of an Arabic Ode]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace destroy/ Or strive to ease thy woes/ Will thou to man impute the joy/ To man ascribe the cause ...'[total = 3 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [The Ton]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's face, a Pulteney's dower/ I ask not wit nor even sense/ I scorn content and innocence/The gift I ask can these forestall/ It aids, improves, implies them all/Then good or bad, or right or wrong/ Grant me ye Gods! - to be the Ton! ...' [Total = 30 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Robert] [Burns] : [Lady Mary Anne]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the troubles in the reign of Charles 1st, a/ country girl came up to London in search of a place as/ servant maid ... Lady Mary Anne was a flower in the dew/ Sweet was its smell and bonnie was its hue ...' [total = 1p. of prose and 2x 4 line verses)

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [unknown]

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh farewell; I shall see him nae mair/ Lang lang was he mine, lang lang but nae mair/ I ?. ?. , but my heart it is sair ...'[total = 10 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Ode to the closing year

[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/The knell of Time in sorrowing tone / Or sadly tune my lyre to sing/ A requiem to the year that's gone? ...' [total = 24 lines of verse followed by 1.5 pp of related prose]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Bride of Abydos

'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Canning Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Anon : Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction'; [Text] 'Reviewing June's perennial flight/ We mark some lovely hours/ Like stars amidst a stormy night/ Or winter blooming flowers ...; 1st In happier hours my pleasure all day/ Was to rove with the thoughtless and dance with the gay/ Through life as I sported no clouds could I see/ And the hearts that were gayest were dearest to me/ But now in affliction how chang'd is the view/ Tho' gay hearts are many sincere ones are few. 2nd Tho' some come around us to laugh and to jest/ In sickness or sorrow they shrink from the test/ ... 3rd But thou in my sorrow still faithfully came/ And tho' I am alter'd, I find you the same...' [total = 2 x 4 line verses followed by 3 x 6 lines verses labelled '1st', '2nd', '3rd']

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[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

Dr Clark : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes his/ native country in the last volume of his travels & few/ men have seen more of the world'. 'Oh England! decent abode of comfort and /cleanliness, & decorum! Oh blessed assylum of all/ that is worth having upon earth ? Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see/ My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee' [total =15 lines of extract with 3 lines of introduction. The final two lines are from 'The traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith. It is uinclear whether they are in Clark's text or are added]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : The record

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His soldier's cloak a shroud/ His churchyard is the open field/ Three times it has been ploughed... L.E.L.' [total =9 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Maria Tighe : The lily

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you obscure unsightly root/Yet from the blight of wintry storm/ It hides secure the precious fruit/ ... (Mrs Tighe)' [total = 40 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

George Croly : Evening's daughter

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose/ Is drooping for thy sigh of dew/ The Hyacinth woos thy kiss to close/ In slumber sweet its eye of blue ... (Croly)' [total = 3 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Letitia Elizabeth Landon : The Troubadour [extract]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a picture by Howard/ the subject - fairies on the sea shore./ First fairy/ My home & haunt are in every leaf/ Whose life is a summer day , bright & brief/ I live in the depths of the tulip's bower/ I drink the dew of the citrus flower/ ...'[total = 4 verses of 10,10,8,12 lines with chorus]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [On Friendship]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation and/ different avenues to our gratitude and favour - A man/may lend his countenance who will not part/ with his money...' [total = 43 lines of prose followed by three related quotes, one French, two are anonymous, the third is by "THe judicious Hooker" ie Richard Hooker?]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

H. Smith : Country and Town

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shades to dwell!/ One positively might as well/ be buried in the quarries/ No earthly object to be seen/ but cows and geese upon the green/ As sung by Captain Morris...' [total = 6 x 6 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine : [L'Homme]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde encore ignore le vrai nom/ Esprit mysterieux, mortel ou demon/...' [total = 58 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Lines on Home

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear the busy hours away/That is not home where lonely night/ Prepares me for the toils of light/ ...' [total = 36 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Henry Neele : The comet

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He treads [?], as treads a monarch towards his throne/ Darkness her leaden sceptre lifts, in vain,/ Crushed and consumed beneath his fiery ?/ [by] Henry Neele' [total = 26 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ and its pleasures in all their new lustre begin/ When we live in a bright beaming world of our own/ And the light that surrounds us is all from within/ ... [by] Moore' [total = 3 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : The illuminated city

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festive light/ For the Royal city rejoiced by night/ ... [by] Mrs Hemans' [total = 5 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : The forest sanctuary

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might/ Which hath lain bedded in the silent soul/ A treasure all undreamed of ; - as the night/ ... [by] Mrs Hemans' [total = 8 x 9 line verses, probably not a continuous extract]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec moi meme;/ Ah prends garde un peril extreme/ De causes avec un flatteur'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[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

Anon : The Dead and the Living [extract]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou bright emanation of the/ Divinity, thou brilliant struggler from another/ world! - daily daily doth thou present to us a striking/ exemplification that man was created in the image / of His Maker ?'; [total = 37 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

William Wordsworth : [The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for relief/ But slowly did her succour come/ And a patience to her grief? Wordsworth'; [8 lines ie last 2 verses only]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : My Birthday

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how each time the day comes round/ Less and less white[?] the ? appears/ ?'; [total = 28 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : To my mother

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its boughs to wander free/ And shoot and blossom wide and high?'; [total = 12 lines plus a 2 line quote]. [Quote Titled] 'Comfort for the loss of Friends'; [Text] 'My gems are fast falling away, but I do hope & trust/ it is because "God is making up his jewels"/ Charles Wolfe'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Resignation

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ Of endless woe complains/ Be mine in patient hope alone/To hear what Heaven ordains...'; [total = 12 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Joseph Addison : [Spare Time]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employment for those retired hours/ in which we are altogether left to ourselves, and/ destitute of company & conversation... Addison'; [total = 20 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : Journal of an Annuyee

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our experience = it is/ sorrow which teaches us to feel properly for ourselves/ and others - We must feel deeply before we can/ think rightly. It is not in the storms and tempests/ of passion, we can reflect - but afterwards ...'; [total = 10 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

Anon : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light and warmth once liv'd below/ Where have ye ta'en your flight above/ Leaving life's vale in wintry woe/ ...'; [total = 2 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Robert] Southey : [The curse of Kehama, canto X]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other passions fly/ All others are but vanity/ Earthly these passions, as of earth/ They perish where they have their birth/ ?' [total = 20 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[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

John Malcolm : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee away and be at rest/ So prayed the Psalmist to be free/ From mortal bond and earthly thrall/ And such, or soon, or late, shall be/ Full oft the heart breathed [?] prayer of all/ ?' [total = 4 x 8 lines verses follow the 2 line quote]

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

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ He hath a deep, though voiceless eloquence, /To which I leave my ? His solemn veil/ ... Mrs Hemans' [total = 12 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

G.I. C..... : The Eve of the Battle

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels the gloomy night/ The din of war will have begun/ The horrors of the fight ?G.I.C.' [total = 24 lines]

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

[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

Luis Baylon : Farewell to the Year

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lockhart'; [Text] 'Hark friends! It strikes -the year's last hour/ a solemn sound to hear/Come fill the cup and let us pour/ Our blessing on the parting year/ ...'; [Total = 5 x 10 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

[Maria] Abdy : Worsted work

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of scornful mirth/ It brings to me glad visions of the calm and quiet hearth/ Of seasons of retirement from the world's obtrusive eyes/ Of freedom from absorbing toils - of dear domestic ties/ ... Mrs Abdy'; [Total = 9 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

M. Vicary : Lines

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen [?] in which we glide/ Above the billows of life's stormy sea/ As bouyant as the sea-bird on the tide/ Though dangers thicken round from ... as free/ ... [?]'; [Total = 6 x 4 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

John Mackintosh : Adieu

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to God what words can else express/ The parting, and the prayer that soars to heaven/ When two fond hearts, long link'd in ternderness/ By the decree of fate at length are riven/ ...'; [Total = 12 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

Anonymous : [untitled]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the storm may be gathering round/ There is one ! who can shield from the hurricane's wrath/ and that one! may for ever be found;/ ... (Anonymous)'; [Total = 3 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown

James Hogg : [poems]

'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many opportunities of hearing much about him.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Unknown

[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

Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man

'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, he "continued reading for half an hour", the bookseller's son remembered'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: King George III Print: Book

Dr Edward Jenner : pamphlet on the cow pox

'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Lucy made love, Mat: Robinson fell asleep, James and Mrs Augusta alternately read Dr Jenner's pamphlet on the cow pox, & I bestowed my company by turns on all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Bramston

George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'To A Lady Weeping'

'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George or Edward Carey Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lines Written Beneath A Picture

'Written Beneath a Picture' 'Dear object of defeated care!/...' 'R.G.C. 1835'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: 'R.G.C.' Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : On Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"

'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [minor differences from the original]

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward or George Carey Print: Unknown

Thomas Moore : 'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother'

'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Maingay [?] Print: Unknown

George Gordon, Lord Byron : To [George, Earl Delawarr]

'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' - Byron's original text]

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Maingay [?] Print: Unknown

Josiah Conder : Home

'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22]

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Maingay [probably] Print: Unknown

Horatio Forbes Brown : John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled from

'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative,all about the facts of a life so simple, and his elaborate self- discussions.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book

Caroline Anne Bowles : Autumn Flowers

'On seeing some Autumn Flowers' 'Those few pale autumn flowers, How beautiful they are!...' 'L.G. Feb 1831'

Unknown

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: 'L.G.'

Livy (Titus Livius) : History of Rome Book XIII

'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Flaminus - completely hid in the morning fog...So that I can truly say that I have seen precisely what the Roman army saw on that day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathetic passages, and natural dialogues in "Evenings at Home" in a manner which would have made even Sterne's critic forget his stop-watch.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth Print: Book

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to my Mother's too rapid way of getting on - & tho' she perfectly understands the Characters herself, she cannot speak as they ought. - Upon the whole however I am quite vain enough & well satisfied enough...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book

Lewis Goldings : Jewish Problem

'But, and it is a big but, I am aware that this opinion has been formed only by reading such books as Louis Goldings' "Jewish Problem", and by making a conscious effort to be fair.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Geoffrey Gorer Print: Book

Hernan Cortes : Cartas de relacion [??]

'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

William Beckford : Vathek

'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Unknown

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis : L'amour maternelle

'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Unknown

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis : Zelie

'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the best of all the pieces by that author.'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne Print: Unknown

[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 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: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

J.W. Marriott : One Act Plays of Today

'Friday, 1st January, Completed my paper on Mazzini. Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap) ?Autocrat of the Breakfast table? (O.W.Holmes).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales from the Hills

'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Niccolo Machiavelli : History of Florence

'Thursday, 7th January, Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture. Smith does not expect to leave for the Coast until about October. He expects to go with Adams. Read: ?History of Florence? ( Machiavelli)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Belfort Bax : Essays on Socialism

'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking with Mother re Cambridge Economics. Advertising is not now purely a competitive weapon but is used mainly by the Monopolists to keep people reminded of their particular line of goods. Otherwise they might discover how much there is that they could very well do without. Read: ?Essays on Socialism? (Belfort Bax)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

J. Ramsay Macdonald : Socialism: Critical and Constructive

'Saturday, 16th January, Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer. Also re donation from Club and Mr. Milligan?s date on syllabus. Read ? ?Socialism: Critical and Constructive? (J.R. McDonald)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Peer Gynt

'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bursary to Oxford or Cambridge. We talked of the difficulty which the universities are said to find in filling up these studentships. Smith ascribed it mainly to economic reasons, family demands, the insufficiency of the allowances etc? Why is it a constant of history that the older generation must fail to make provision for the changed requirements of the younger. Read - ?Peer Gynt? (Ibsen)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Leonard Merrick : A Chair on the Boulevard

'Thursday,28th January, ?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I suppose it has been done too often. In any case Bensham have done it and Beechcroft must set the pace, not follow the lead. Read ? ?A chair on the Boulevard? (L. Merrick)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Henrik Ibsen : Brand

'Friday, 29th January, I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. And, after all I think that religion was made for man, and not man made for religion. Christ is dead, and infinitely more use as a tradition than in life. Christ was not like Brand ? he pitied humanity. Brand is inclined, if not to sneer, at least, to treat with impatience the odd ways of man. Read - ?Brand? (Ibsen)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

unknown : [humorous poetry]

'Sunday, 31st January, Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry. A rubber of whist.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Isaac Walton : The Compleat Angler

'Wednesday, 3rd February, Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint and so nice in these shallow times that it is one long delight.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Robert Herrick : unknown

'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exciting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

E. Phillips Oppenheim : The Great Impersonation

'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exciting.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Herman Melville : Omoo

'Wednesday, 10th February, Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates. Read ?Omoo? (Melville)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Matthew Prior : Shorter Poems

'Thursday, 11th February, Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound interesting in a few years ? when the fashion has passed. Elections in both Warbreck and Walton ? busy at Committee rooms. Read ? ?Shorter Poems? (Matthew Prior) I like the light epigrammatic stuff in this book, but I could not get wildly excited over it like Pat [George Eric Paterson, friend of Moore's] ? but then no one can emulate the wild abandon of Pat?s enthusiasms. In any case he certainly understands Matt. and his contemporaries better than I do.' [Matthew Prior, 1664-1721 - Poet, politician and diplomat. As ambassador to Paris negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht 1713, popularly known as 'Matt's peace'. Subsequently impeached and imprisoned. On release, his poems were published in 1717].

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Guy de Maupassant : Notre Coeur

'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : Barry Lindon

'Monday, 15th February, Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnificent. I would like to give a paper on this aspect of Thackeray?s writing, or, indeed, on this book. Wrote to Eric Barber re Scarborough Camp. Read - ?Barry Lindon? (W. M. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Hilaire Belloc : Path to Rome

'Friday, 19th February, Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immense amount of talking, and were theatrical than they ever manage to be on stage. Milligan and Mother stuck their tongues in their cheeks and waited ? until a plan was formulated which while presenting some outward appearance of novelty will leave essentials much as they were. Read ? ?Path to Rome? (H. Belloc)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Henry James : The American

'Sunday, 21st February, Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with the help of a pin and a newspaper they lost or won pennies. Whisper it not in Gath ? I joined in and ? extreme of immorality ? lost ! Read ? ?The American? (Henry James)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

J.J. Bell : Thread o' Scarlet

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Dunsany : A Night in the Sun

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

W.W. Jacobs : The Monkey's Paw

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Lady Gregory : The Rising of the Moon

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : The Four Georges

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Villehardouin : Memoirs of the Crusades

'Tuesday, 2nd March, Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeting, except the Committee which met to discuss entertaining activities. B. Lear and Will Evans are taking over the dramatics leaving Vin Roper and I to organise the Concert Party. Read ? ?Memories of the Crusades? (Villehardouin et Joinville)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

'Friday, 5th March, I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the classic books of criticism, as apart from their literary value. It was my opinion that in nearly all cases, as the minds of readers has evolved with the changing times so the light in which the classic must be viewed has altered and therefore old criticism must, in nearly every case be superseded. At least, as regards the ?human? as distinct from the literary element in the book. I feel that we cannot ever completely reconstruct the life of a past age or enter into the minds of people who lived in other times. Pat remarked that he was constantly struck by the little progress made in thought and the things of the mind. Read ? ?The Autocrat of the breakfast table? (O. W. Holmes).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Rupert Brooke : Poems

'Monday, 8th March, Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan president?s reply. I think that such generalisations as that Nation is unsporting are merely vulgar exhibitions of sloppy thinking. Read ? ?Poems? (Rupert Brook)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Journal to Stella

'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Robinson gave an introductory explanation of money and credit, and then discussed the most important of the modern schools of Financial and Economist thought. His view, and the point of the lecture, was that a managed currency could be used alleviate, and perhaps cure, the present state of affairs ? the internal trade crisis and the principle problem ? unemployment. Smith off work today. Read ? ?Journal to Stella? (Swift)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Hamlet

'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half our members. Reading ?Hamlet" ? the first time I have read it with any attempt at real comprehension.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Jonathan Swift : Journal to Stella

'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O. K. though the humour is hardly my line ? ?De Heiny and his Piccadilly Orchestra?, for example, as the Mayor?s name ? Mr. Bill Sticker? (a hit at R. P. Fletcher). The use of the stage trap as a tunnel entrance is an idea. Read ? ?Journal to Stella? (Swift).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Hilaire Belloc : The Eye-Witness

'Monday, 22nd March, Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Serial / periodical

Joseph Conrad : Almayer's Folly

'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up in these periodical excitements. I neither know anything or care anything about horse-racing, yet I was looking for a news-boy to know the winner within five minutes of it?s being run. Power of the Press. ?King of Clubs? 100 ? 1, with Donoghue ???? Preparing this evening for Club annual meeting. Read ? ?Almayer?s Folly? (J. Conrad) - Smith?s book. A dismal soul ? Conrad.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Alphonse Daudet : Tartarin sur les Alpes

'Sunday, 28th March, Discussion Group ? annual meeting. Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Edmond Holmes : The Tragedy of Education

'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do. Bought Ira ?Far from the Madding Crowd?. Wrote Adana people re printing press. Have decided on a course for the Club next year ? ?The English Historical Novel??a study of English history, manners and institutions. A lot can be done with this if the books are carefully chosen. Read -- ?the Tragedy of Education (Edmond Holmes)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Honore de Balzac : La Peau de Chagrin

'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players are taking up all his time. Bal. Lear takes his place. I look forward to a record year. We have adopted the course on the ?English Historical Novel? for our programme and intend to vary this on alternate weeks with single lectures, debates etc ? Read -- ?La Peau de Chagrin? etc, (Balzac)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life of Nelson

'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find myself hoping that someday the grass will grow again over the site of so much ugliness. Talking of ugliness, nothing adds so much to its horror as monotony. Here are embryo slums, unless trees and gardens save them. Read ? ?The life of Nelson? (Southey)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As you Like it

'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but nice. ?Under the Greenwood Tree? and ?Blow, blow thou Winter Wind? are my songs. I shall enjoy it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year

'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-health. Read ? ?Journal of the Plague Year? (Defoe)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

J.B. Priestley : Figures in Modern Literature

'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging Dad. Clean forgets to send the wagon over the weighing machine. He was stopped before he had sold anything. Hard lines on the good old family name. The joke would have been complete if mother had been on the bench. Read ? ?Figures in Modern Literature? (J. B. Priestley)'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

William Makepeace Thackeray : English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

'Tuesday, 13th April, Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehearsal fell through however owing to the Settlement being crowded. Postponed to Friday. I walked down to the Ferry with Bal Lear, talking about the merits of the ?Observer? and Garvin?s leaders. The beautiful weather which has lasted, unbroken, for three weeks came to an end today. It looks as though summer had set in. Read ? ?English Humourists? (W. M. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

unknown : unknown

'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on Friday. I might get an idea from the London highbrows. At home reading'.

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: Manchester Guardian

'Thursday, 20th May The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaustible treasury of lore and anecdote on the subject. He talks of Noble, Clem Hill, Mc Claren, W.G.Lockwood? as I would talk of Holls and Tate. We all read ?Cricketer? (Neville Cardus) in the ?Manchester Guardian?.'

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: Manchester Guardian

'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has come out on top. The ?Guardian? ?. ?New Statesman? etc. are with him and seem to consider Asquith?s letter was prompted by personal antipathy. The trouble has arisen over George?s critical attitude towards the Government during the General Strike and his contributions to the American Press on the subject.'

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: New Statesman

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Sinclair Lewis : Our Mr Wrenn

'Thursday 3rd June ?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis) I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on hand but life is nothing without the fight. I feel I am slipping too much into cricket, and taking life too easily. Mr Milligan has asked me again to organise a Peace Week meeting on the 19th !!!' [Sinclair Lewis, the son of a doctor, was born in Minnesota in 1885. He entered Yale University in 1903 but left three years later to join Englewood, the socialist colony founded by the writer Upton Sinclair. In 1908 Lewis moved to New York where he became a freelance writer. His first novel, Hike and the Aeroplane was published in 1912 ? He died in Rome in 1951].

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Sinclair Lewis : Martin Arrowsmith

'Friday 4th June ?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis). How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hungerings are illustrated in this book. It has given me one of the worst fits of depression I ever suffered from. With the certainty I feel of being equal to big things, my inability to fight the circumstances that prevent me studying and preparing myself, makes me ache. Economics, literature, drama, social reform are only so many words to me, and yet I know that I could, with courage, make myself both an educated man and a social teacher. Well, I will try again.'

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H.G. Wells : Short History of the World

'Sunday 20th June ? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'.

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Bret Harte : Jack Hamlin's Mediation

'Tuesday 22nd June ?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte) Wednesday 23rd June A quiet day today and then last thing, neurotic attack. Went and joined the Library today. They are hopelessly deficient in good stuff, either old or new, but still they carry lots of books otherwise inaccessible to me.'

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R.H. Mottram : The Spanish Farm

'Thursday 24th June. ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram). Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite right too.'

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: Daily Post

'Thursday 24th June ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram) Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite right too.'

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Percy Wyndham Lewis : At the Sign of the Black Moon

'Saturday 26th June ?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'.

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Rose Macaulay : Orphan Island

'Wednesday 30th June. ?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay). Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. Then a walk in the evening and bringing my arrears of writing up to date. We must look Dad up tomorrow, he will be lonely and depressed.'

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Rose Macaulay : Orphan Island

'Thursday 1st July This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use of the shortened day. We should have gone to see Dad but left it too late. However, I have finished ?Orphan Island? and so added a rich recollection to my sum of experience. It is a great book. Really Great. The whole idea is inimitably that of the author of ?Told by an Idiot?. Rose Macauley?s chief charm is the delightful sustained humour of her prose. Every word is charmingly quiet and sweet, and yet how devastating the satire and the irony. What a pity. I have to admit to being so hopelessly ?orphan? since she finds so little in them but noise and sentiment.'

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Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'Friday 2nd July Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed the supper dishes and I am waiting for breakfast reading Bennett?s ? Mr Prohack?. We got over to see Dad. He was not in but he left a note for me and we found him at the big Gilmore house cutting down the timber. There being no coal he has managed to purchase some of the timber in the garden as the house has been bought by the corporation as a housing site. He has to cut his wood down roots and all ? haul it to the yard, saw it and load it before it is ready for sale.'

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Arnold Bennett : Mr Prohack

'Monday 5th July I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett?s views on the feminine. I do not quarrel with them. I am not qualified to do so, knowing little of women, but if his representations are correct ? well, I hate the thought, it makes me a gloomy pessimist. Therefore I don?t think them correct.'

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May Sinclair : Mr Waddington of Wyck

'Tuesday 6th July. ?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair). Back to the office today and find that young Reid has done pretty well. Kept my work fairly up-to-date. He has also kept quiet re-meeting my family last week. Smith is back too, after a quiet fortnight and he recommends Louis Golding to me. He (Smith) is reading ?Sicilian Noon?. I must try also that thing I have heard so much about ?Lolly Willowes? by Sylvia Townsend Warner. '

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J.B. Priestley : The English Comic Character

'Wednesday 7th July. ?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'.

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St Francis of Assissi : Little Flowers of St Francis

'Thursday 8th July I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very lovely if at times a little amusing. Cannot however stomach the bodily uncleanness of the ?out and out? Franciscans. It does not read well. The miracles are often very beautiful and often rather funny.'

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William Shakespeare : Henry IV

'Saturday 10th July ?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.

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Sylvia Townsend Warner : Lolly Willowes

'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that they have something to tell which one is too stupid to discover. I am not stupid, and if a writer deliberately sets out either to obscure or to deliberately draw red-herrings across the track of analysis, then it is the author?s fault if the reader?s ideas do not coincide with the writer?s intentions. I do not know what ?Lolly Willowes? ?means?. If it is about witchcraft or the witch temperament or a peculiar eccentricity of outlook which may be termed the witch mind, well and good, But the fantastic flickering style of the prose, whilst delightful to read as poetic word sequences, annoys me when I desire to know how far the author desires to be taken simply and literally, and know the reader is expected to gather the point of the book or to exercise his own fancy on it. I can however understand the queer blurred effect of the world as seen by the reader through the heroine?s eyes. I have felt the world about me in similarly usual fashion, but what has this to do with witchcraft: Indigestion possibly.'

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William Pett Ridge : Story Teller in London

'Monday 19th July ?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge) This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading is the mood. To make almost personal acquaintance with famous personages, bohemians, politicians, writers, bon viveurs through the medium of the pen of an acquaintance. I like Ridge. I think he is undoubtedly the great Cockney of his generation and his description of office and suburban life are what I myself dream of as the pinnacle of literary perfection, which I would like to rise to. It appears he is quite a public man in South London and a Philanthropist.'

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Reg Berkeley : Unparliamentary papers

'Thursday 22nd July. ?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley). I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it difficult to escape boredom. I am as fond of conversation, provided it is not merely aimless, that to have to confine myself solely to reading and lonely observation is rather tiresome. I have had a rather jolly trip round the book-stalls today, though, and had I been other than broke, might have picked up one or two bargains.'

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Rebecca West : Return of the Soldier

'Sunday 25th July. ?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West). A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as interpreted by the woman character who tells the story.'

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Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil

'Thursday 29th July ?Sybil? ? (Disraeli) [...] I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft for my syllabus on the Historical novel.'

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unknown : [Economics textbook]

'Friday 30th July. Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systematically this time. I hope I shall be able to keep it up as I know I shall find it interesting once I break through the crust of introductory chapters. When I have done a little of this groundwork it will make me able to understand and appreciate more exactly the work modern economists ? Keynes, Marshall, Webb, etc? This is an old ambition of mine. I hope to stagger through Marx some day.'

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Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

'Saturday 31st July. ?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'.

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Walter Jerrold : A Book of Famous Wits

'Sunday 1 August. ?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold). To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend and seems quite normal and comfortable. I took some books with me and recommended the ?Stickit Minister? to him.'

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unknown : unknown

'Monday 2nd August. We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some music, some reading, talk and smokes. Very satisfactory. There is a story in the book I am reading at present which I found interesting as seeming to point to Waterloo Bridge having been, before, a subject of just such controversy as rages round it at present. Story goes as follows ? It being remarked that some people were opposed to the building of Waterloo Bridge because it would spoil the river. Luttrell (a social figure of the late XVIIIth century) exclaimed, ?By Gad Sir, if a few very sensible people had been attended to, we should still be champing acorns. What amuses me is that people are now opposing the alteration and enlargement of the present structure on the grounds that its destruction will spoil the river!'

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Hilaire Belloc : Pongo and the Bull

'Tuesday 3rd August. ?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'.

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George Moore : The Untilled Field

'Saturday 7th August ?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'.

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H.W. Nevinson : Between the Acts

'Monday 9th August. ?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson). Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I have got a batch of my syllabus correspondence away, thank goodness. I still cannot find a good book dealing with the period of the VII and VIII Henries. It is curious since it was a period of great change and development, much active and intellectual life and considerable alteration in the manner of life of our people. No good novelist seems to have treated of it, however.'

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J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.'

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Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil

'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.'

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Walter Besant : For Faith and Freedom

'Thursday 19th August ?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'.

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Edna Lyall : To Right the Wrong

'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor game out of five! A result due to our refusal to play them out. ?To Right the Wrong? ( Edna Lyall)' .

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: Daily Mail

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: Courier

'Tuesday 24 August The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, since he has become a tool whereby the press can reduce such a bulk of the public into maundering, talk-fed imbeciles.'

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Alexander Pope : The Dunciad

'Thursday 26th August Pope?s ?Dunciad? This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nature as this must remain to some extent neglected. One easily fills the spaces of course. But there is not the energy for choosing the peculiarity of the day?s happenings on thought, that will make the entry worth while.'

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William Makepeace Thackeray : Esmond

'Friday 27th August I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former. Why is Thackeray suffering from a decline? He is the best of them, easily. What novelist is there to rival him in the nineteenth century? Dickens, perhaps, in greatness, but there is no comparison between their writings, they are so completely different from each other. There is no standard, and no need for one. I picked up for 6 cent. a little ?Selected works of Pope. With the ?Dunciad? ?The Rape of the Lock?, ?Essay on Critism?? Fine!'

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Walter Scott : The Fortunes of Nigel

'Thursday 2nd September ?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)'

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Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'Tuesday 7th September ?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)'

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Charles Kingsley : The Heroes

'Friday 10th September Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then it goes away, to be out on her shelf, which I am planning with some thought, and, I hope, taste for childish requirements. It would make a nice subject for an essay. Teddie and I already have following for our childrens? bookshelf ? Kinsgley?s ?Heroes?, ?Alice in Wonderland? and ?Through the Looking Glass?. A complete ?Hans Andersen? also a selection, beautifully illustrated by Dulac Lamb?s ?Tales from Shakespeare? and Hope-Moncrieff?s ?Classic Myth and Legend?. It is a fairly good beginning.'

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James Branch Cabell : Jurgen

'Sunday 12th September ?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'.

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C.E.M. Joad : Thrasymachus

'Monday 13th September ?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)'

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Xenophon/Plato : Socratic Discourses

'Saturday 18th September ?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman) I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues on Poetic Inspiration? for a long time and was glad to spot this'.

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Ashley Thorndike (ed.) : Minor Elizabethan Drama

'Monday 20th September ?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)'

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"Bartimeus" : The Long Trick

Sunday 26th September ?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus? A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. Had an hour or two at the piano and showed form. I like ?Bartimeus? ? in the mood. He is delightfully humorous in a somewhat lugubrious manner.'

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Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Thursday 30th September ?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott) Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusion and chaos. My life at present is a tale of mugging away at my desk. I read a book on my way down town. Have a little brisk conversation with Smith in the luncheon hour ? if he is in town, or a walk round the book shops if he is not. Another little talk with Pat over our evening coffee. A few laughs during the day at Blowers? profanity or Lauson?s buffoonery. Then home to a meal, a short read, a little writing and bed. I seldom see the children except on Sundays.'

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unknown : The Golden Glory

'Monday 4th October ?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.'

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Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho!

'Monday 11th October ?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'.

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Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random

'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'.

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H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli

'Friday 15th October. Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new uniform edition of Wells. The latter are easily the most beautiful cheap editions I have seen and I intend to get the pick of them. ?Kipps? next and ?Mr Polly?. Monday 18th October. ?The New Machiavelli? (H.G. Wells).'

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H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli

'Wednesday 20th October. Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening and read ?Machiavelli?. Some day I must put my thoughts on this book on to paper. I feel at present as though it might help me very materially in some respects, on my own path in life. I think in the sex problem the hero is somewhat similar in make-up to myself. Whilst his intellectual activities are but my own magnified. This, I will qualify and explain to myself when I finish the book.'

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Henry N. Brailsford : War of Steel and Gold

'Wednesday 3rd November. ?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).'

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May Sinclair : The Tree of Heaven

'Saturday 6th November. ?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair). Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Mother is ill and expect to have to go to hospital. We yarned about the Aldermania elections. If the Labour Party in Birkenhead watch their step they will have a majority after the Alderman elections.'

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J. Maynard Keynes : The End of Laissez Faire

Monday 6th November. ?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is very interesting; it is quite a declaration of belief and gives some typically tentative and nervous signs of Keynes position. I think he realises that his attitude requires considerable modification. He has found and knows the truth, but is afraid to realise it. He tries to cover it up from himself by ineffectual qualifications.'

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Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

'Thursday 11th November. ?Opium-eater? again.'

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: New Leader

'Saturday 20th November. I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless propagandist rag. It is a shame, when under Brailsford it was one of the finest political reviews in the country.'

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Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Sunday 28th November ?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).'

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Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Tuesday 7th December. "Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'.

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W.W. Jacob : The Castaways

'Thursday 9th December. ?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'.

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Victor MacClure : The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London

'Monday 13th December ?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.

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Sabine Baring-Gould : Cheap Jack Zita

'Tuesday 14th December. ?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'.

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Eugene Labiche : Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon

'Friday 17th December. French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s class. Only 3 present. Rather jolly. I think I could teach French if I did a little preliminary grinding at grammar. They are doing Themoin?s method and reading ?Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon?. I?d like to do this on the stage. I don?t know of anything quite so funny in English drama.'

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Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne : The Rev. Captain Kettle

'Saturday 18th December. ?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'.

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Romain Rolland : Au dessus de la m?l

'Monday 20th December ?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland). This is the first time I have managed to get hold of this book. Mother was very friendly with Madeleine Rolland, the author?s sister, during our stay in Paris, during the war. I find it interesting, but only as a good sketch of fine pacifist thought, but even more as a vivid reproduction of that almost forgotten period ? the war ? and the extraordinary chaos in which mind and intellect were swallowed up over three quarters of Europe.'

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Romain Rolland : Au dessus de la m?l

'Wednesday 22 December. I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous laziness of those who experienced the war, in failing to preach the gospel of ?never? again. Why, why do we let the governments go on? Secret diplomacy, concession hunting, financial wrangling. Calculated ?inspiring? of the press. It is horrible. I used to believe the Press to be sincere, if misguided. But I have been reading the ?Mail? lately, and the easily recognizable note of sincerity is absolutely lacking.'

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Edward Whymper : Scrambles among the Alps

'Saturday 25th December. ?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper) Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Christmas. Certainly, if any book could give it, it is this one. Today has been rather a bore. The usual heavyweight dinner made everybody too somnolent to allow of any attempt at enjoyment. So we slept and read and ate and ? finally ? slept.'

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Mary Johnston : By Order of the Company

'Monday 27th December. ?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'.

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Rudyard Kipling : Plain Tales from the Hills

[List of books read in 1926] '"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes), "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling), "History of Florence" (Machiavelli), "Essays in Socialism" (Belfort Bax), "Socialism: Critical and Constructive" (J.R. Macdonald), "Trimblerigg" (L. Houseman), "Peer Gynt" (Ibsen), "A Chair on the Boulevard" (L. Merrick), "Brand" (Ibsen), "The Long Roll" (M. Johnston), "Compleat Angler" (I. Walton), "Omoo" (H. Melville), "Shorter Poems" (M. Prior), "Notre Coeur" (G. de Maupassant), "Barry Lindon" (Thackeray), "Path to Rome" (Belloc), "The Americans" (Henry James), "Four Georges" (Thackeray), "Memoirs of the Crusades" (Villehardouin & de Joinville), "Journal to Stella" (Swift), "Hamlet" (Temple Shakespeare), "The Eye Witness" (Belloc), "Almayer's Folly" (Conrad), "Tartarin sur les Alpes" (Daudet), "The Tragedy of Education" (Edmond Holmes), "La Peur de Chagrin" etc (Balzac), "Life of Nelson" (Southey), "Les Fr?quentations de Maurice" (Sidney Place), "Journal of the Plague Year" (Defoe), "Figures in Modern Literature" (J.B. Priestley), "English Humourists" (Thackeray), "Frank Mildmay" (Marryat), "Polar Exploration" (Buck), "Cricket and Cricketers" (Philip [illegible]), "The Sowers" ([illegible]), "Our Mr Wrenn" (Sinclair Lewis), "Martin Arrowsmith" (ditto), "Short History of the World" (H.G. Wells), "Jack Hamlin's Mediation" etc (Bret Harte), "At the Sign of the Blue Boar" (Wyndham Lewis), "Orphan Island" (Rose Macaulay), "The Spanish Farm" (R.H. Mottram), "Mr Prohack" (Arnold Bennett), "Told by an Idiot" (Rose Macaulay), "Mr Waddington of Wyck" (May Sinclair), "English Comic Characters" (J.B. Priestley), "Henry IV" (Temple Shakespeare), "Lolly Willowes" ( ? ) [Sylvia Townsend Warner]'

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H.G. Wells : A Modern Utopia

'1st January- Saturday I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep. This might, thus, be an exemplary year for me, from my contrarily carrying-out all the resolutions I have not formed. ?A modern utopia? ( H.G. Wells ).'

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Harold Brighouse : Captain Shapely

'4th January ? Tuesday. ?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse. A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, and in a style I like. No superfluous verbiage.'

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Gerald Moore : [list of books read in 1926]

'5th January ? Wednesday. I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, considering that I always read the books I start on.'

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J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how he seems to take war in China for granted, as merely inevitable and spends his time appealing to the Powers ?not to gather in a spirit of spoliation?, after the conflict! Already! And this, from a leading Pacifist, and League of Nations speaker. How can it be thought surprising, that the ordinary people, spending too much time earning their bread and butter to allow of deep thought, should succumb easily to waves of jingoism, when the prophet and leaders themselves, the most steady of the press, the most earnest of clerics are already braying compromise, within ten years of the World War.'

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: Liverpool Post

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J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant

'13th January, Thursday. ?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse). I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the most wonderful books I have come across, but because the wonderful earnestness of it, and the vision of life it gives me, inspire me in my own small concerns. I wonder if I myself, am doing a measurable good in my activities?'

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Sidney and Beatrice Webb : The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation

'18th January, Tuesday. ?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb) I was up till late last night finishing my paper for Wednesday.'

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George Eric Paterson : poems [unspecified]

'20th January, Thursday. Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Moore was the editor] I had to smile at finding again the classic influence which inspires his every thought. He writes in the style of a man whose reading lies in the works of Shakespeare, Milton and the Golden Age.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Manuscript: Sheet

H.G. Wells : The Dream

'30th January, Sunday. I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to rights. ?The Dream? (H.G. Wells).'

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Israel Zangwill : King of the Schnorres

'2nd February, Wednesday. I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is a most ingenious, and a most humorous writer. He is another of those authors who make me wonder why the ordinary reader wastes time on cheap rubbish. Here is a book, one of hundreds, which is as entertaining, as quick moving, and dramatic as any one can desire, and yet I doubt if it can hold place with B.M. Bower, Ethel M. Dell, Elinor Glyn, Zane Grey and the other tripe-mongers.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

: Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First World War

'6th February, Sunday. We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken little notice of it, and never been inside it. It is of course a very old foundation, but the present fabric is quite modern. Considering its appearance of size from the outside, mainly due I think to the very tall, square tower, it is a remarkably small church. Extremely simple, in fact quite plain, apart from some carved woodwork. The one feature which we found noteworthy was the two rolls of honour, commemorative of those who fell in the great war. The one, an ornate brass reserved for commissioned officers, the other of plain wood badly carved with the names of privates and non-coms. Oh, the Lessons of the Great War!'

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: Advertisements in French

'18th February, Thursday. The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through the Customs Shed ? pas d?emb?tements ? and, having found and bagged our sets, we had a twenty minutes stroll on the platform. And oh, the fun of it! Listening to the talking and shouting in French, reading the notices and advertisements, noticing again the queer lowness of the platforms and the two or three steps up to the train. Then away to Paris through the flats of the Pas de Calais.'

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: menu in French

'19th February, Saturday. The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had the afternoon to myself. I luncheoned with Uhlig and Frorup at the restaurant Marre, rue d?Hauteville, and began my re-education in menu reading. Took to ?vin rouge? again very naturally!'

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H.G. Wells : The Invisible Man

'23rd February, Wednesday. This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-coldness of the little Hotel Cronstadt in the Quartier Convention. Wrote to Teddie and Mother. In bed I read a French translation of Well?s ?Invisible Men?. Which is about all the literature Muggridge possesses, and then went to sleep very willingly, being horribly homesick. I am so alone in this vast city.'

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: Le Sourire

'26th February, Saturday. Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read till dinner time. Muggridge having lent me a few numbers of ?Le Sourire?, I went steadily through the lot, with, I?m sure, typically British enjoyment of Gallic humour. I suppose I shall shake off this feeling of ?surreptitiousness? of ?shamefacedness?. I hope so, it?s so damnably idiotic and smug'.

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Claude Farr?re : Les Civilis

'17th March, Thursday. The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have almost given it up since I came to France. Now, to bed. I will start with ?Les Civilis?s? by Claude Farr?re, it looks light and bright enough to start on.'

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Anatole France : Jocaste et le Chat Maigre

'19th March, Saturday. Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.'

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V. Marguerite : La Gar?onne

'29th March, Tuesday. ?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite. 30th March, Wednesday. These last few days I have been reading Marguerite?s ?La Gar?onne?. I am disappointed. Instead of an exciting chronicle of debauchery, full of hints on sex-relationship, I find it simply a rather vigorous, but incurably sentimental treatise on Malthusianism. One or two of its scenes are realistic in the strictest sense, but for the rest, his heroine is a most romantic young lad who finishes up by falling in love properly and setting up in matrimony. But then I have always found the French sentimental.'

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Emile Zola : Une Page d'Amour

'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and somehow weaker than ?La Terre?, but also one of the Rougon Macquard series. It seems to be only a sort of sketched-in incident, a bit of relief to the greater volumes. A great book, none the less, and a little less strained in the stressing of the hastily obvious. Zola is too inclined to describe to his readers certain habits of mankind, which they know quite as well as he. He does not seem to understand that it is just this fact that causes the less ?realist? author to leave them out.'

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Cecil Chesterton : History of the United States

'16th September 1928 I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to acquire the habit of taking notes when reading a book, even such a student?s book as this really is, but I think I will try and do so for once. The book is, of course, to a great extent the expression of a personal view, but much of the thought it contains as I think extremely true and valuable. I like it generally speaking.' I find it agrees with my own conception of American racial temperament and American institutions, while the descriptive history is vivid and exciting. A very jolly book. I do not think Cecil Chesterton a great writer, but he is a hard and coherent thinker, and has a flair for infusing movement and life into his book.

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: Le Journal

'17th September 1928. The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhineland evacuation question may now be discussed. Good God. What have they been doing all these years? The session of the league has been so overshadowed by this vicious and farcical conference that it has hardly appeared in the press, and not at all in the paper I have been buying the last few days ? ?Le Journal?. The end is not far off. I suppose the League will exist until the next war breaks it, but its power is ebbing fast. In fact, from a diplomatic viewpoint it is dead. What a chance has been lost, and how culpable are those statesmen who by this attitude and their actions have willed it so.'

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W.W. Jacobs : The Castaways

'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about Prince Louis-Napol?on who was killed in the Zulu war. I always remember him as the very fat man in one of mother?s picture books. When I was very young he afforded me much amusement. I have been reading Jacobs between chapters of American history. ?Deep Waters? and ?The Castaways? ?.. (W. W. Jacobs)'

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W.W. Jacobs : Deep Waters

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Cecil Chesterton : The History of the United States

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Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment

'19th September 1928 (Wednesday) I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bringing them in two?s and threes, but I have had enough of lugging suitcases full of books. Nothing in the papers today except ?last words? on the ?6? power conference. ?Le Crime et le Chatiment? - (Dostoivesky); translated Victor D?r?ly'

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: Le Journal

'20th September 1928 (Thursday). I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of ?mentals?, this brings a long discussed question on to the tapis (carpet), and perhaps we shall now have a proper expression of opinion from the experts as to the practicality of such a measure. An article by a doctor in the ?Journal? states that the medical opinion is ?against? it being a doctor?s duty not to accept the defeat that such a measure implies but to work for a destruction of the evil by purely curative means. And meantime, humanity?'

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Rudyard Kipling : Letters of Travel

'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this book although the slabs of jaunty, impatient, imperialism become rather monotonous. Still, the splendid descriptive power that the book betokens, make it excellent reading. The ?sentiments? are too well known, and too familiar to jar now to any appreciable degree. It is a curious contrast that in a book very slight in itself, with little thread or cohesion, the phrasing should be so powerful. I suppose Kipling?s long experience in ballad-mongering stands him in good stead.'

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: The New York American

'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst papers, ?The New York American? has got hold of a letter from the Quai d?Orsay to the Embassies in which it appears quite clearly that the pact is merely an agreement between France and England to terms regarding limitation, ruling out further discussion of the different view point held by the States. Naturally, the States regard this as a hostile move, particularly in view of the stupid secrecy of it. Their cruiser programme suspended a year ago at the beginning of the discussion is now to be proceeded with, and the ?Big Navy Group? will be crowing.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Newspaper

Thomas Vladesco : [article on Henrik Ibsen]

'28th September 1928 (Friday). I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France?. The writer sets out to prove Ibsen a bon bourgeois, a person with a wholesome respect for human institutions who merely created ?characters? and balanced individualisms. Whilst to my mind, thus denuding Ibsen of all the greatness, which the world has attributed to him, the writer claims rather to be clearing him of false and foul charges of anarchism, so heightening his renown by a purification of his ideas and intentions. The article is a rank failure. The writer proves nothing, ?clears? Ibsen of all sorts of ?charges? which no thinking reader makes against him, and gives him a philosophy, small, and shallow, which a most superficial acquaintance with his work would show to be untrue of the dramatist. Even the oft repeated claim that he belauds individualism is unsound. What Ibsen does do is to show in ?Peer Gynt? and in ?Brand? that both by individualistic and by self-effacing methods of life man fails to attain the goal. Man?s end is failure (though perhaps a great failure). He sets the question and there leaves it. Ibsen is a questioner. In that, Shaw goes beyond him, for Shaw has always an answer though it is Shaw?s answer.'

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Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'30th September 1928 (Sunday) We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at the Express du Havre and finally parted for home at 11.45. A good day. I brought away the 1st book of Romain Rolland?s ?Jean Christophe? and devoured half of it before going to sleep.'

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Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'1st October 1928 (Monday). Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this great book. I hope the other volumes are as good as ?L?Aube? though Mme. Bisseux thinks not. ?Jean Christophe? (1st ?L?Aube?) Romain Rolland'.

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Romain Rolland : Jean Christophe

'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought to light by the revelations regarding the Anglo-French naval pact. Even the old ?Observer? admits that England has only just missed dealing the foulest blow at the cause of international peace since the war. America is wholly on the qui vive now especially as the Presidential elections are in full swing and the pact is getting the fullest possible publicity. It is curious that their note on the subject should be so restrained. Either they are in earnest in their pacifist pretensions or they are so sure of the failure of any negotiation that they are willing to risk a big bluff. England has not come off very well out of either the League session or the Pact fiasco so let?s hope that Chamberlain?s diplomacy has suffered a final setback. [...] Finished Rolland?s book.'

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: The Observer

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Rudyard Kipling : Letters of Travel

'3rd October 1928 (Wednesday). Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned home hungry as a hunter. Finished ?Letters of Travel? which has been hanging fire. To bed early.'

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Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol : Taras Boulba

'6th October 1928 (Saturday). So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading ?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - translated by A. Potogky- Stchekotikhina. Scripta Manent Edition.'

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Leo Tolstoy : unknown

'Saturday 13th October 1928. After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. [...] Queerly enough, though Pioch himself is a Tolstoyan and though his speech showed the bias, it seemed to strengthen the instinctive dislike, which I feel for Tolstoy the man. I can admire and be troubled by his theories. I can find his works wonderful, and yet I dislike Tolstoy. His personal arrogance, his obvious sense of superiority to all the individuals with whom he comes in contact does not square with his humility in face of that which are abstractions ? the People. Again, he is too much the propagandist. He squares the circle too perfectly. He seems drunk with logic in his propagandist books. These things always make me suspicious. I do not believe that life can be simplified like that, that it can be governed by half a dozen rules of conduct. I believe that life is essentially a thing of endless complication, endless contradiction, a machinery of compromises, a picture composed of endlessly varied halftones. It is probable that I do not properly appreciate the Tolstoyan argument, but so far as my comprehension permits and my own knowledge, I am no Tolstoyan.'

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Romain Rolland : Vie de Tolstoy

'Monday, 15th October 1928 ?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'.

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H. Barbusse : La Clart

'24th October 1928. Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt?raire? (Cours Moyen). The publishers are Alcyde Picard, and mother gave me his address as 18, rue Soufflot. On my going there, however, I found that his address is actually rue Hautefeuille. [...] I got the books and posted them off although the money was only sufficient for seven and I could not supplement it being ?a sec?. ?La Clart?? (H. Barbusse)'

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Claude Anet : La Rive d?Asie

'27th October 1928 (Saturday) ?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)'

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: Birkenhead Advertiser

'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New Leader?. How funny the Advertiser seems to me reading it in the atmosphere of this great city. These columns of local gossip, and the accounts of football matches between such teams as the Cement Works and the Municipal employees. How do we manage to take ourselves so seriously.'

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: New Leader

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George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah

'1st January 1929 (Tuesday) In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Methuselah?. ?Back to Methuselah? (George Bernard Shaw)'.

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George Bernard Shaw : Back to Methuselah

'4th January 1929. ?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw'

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W.J. Locke : [?] The Usurper

'6th January 1929. After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by W. J. Locke, the title of which slips my mind (a fair index to the books worth), but I think it was ?The outcast?.'

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John Galsworthy : Beyond

'7th January 1929 Monday. This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie. ?Beyond? Galsworthy.'

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John Galsworthy : Beyond

'8th January 1929 ?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most delightful reading, and a most beautiful argument. It is a story of love and marriage, that has but few bright spots in the actual events of the narrative, and yet would make anyone long to love in the heroic, ?int?grale? manner of its heroine. To be either the subject or the object of such a passion would make a full life, with reference to the years of its duration.'

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Henry Bordeaux : Robe de Laine

'12th January 1929. During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not care for Bordeaux though I do not know why.'

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: Excelsior

'13th February 1929 I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses allied to the French Royal house have arrived at the Palais d?Orl?ans in Palermo for the marriage of the Princesse Fran?oise. What a game. It must be far more amusing to be a wealthy exile than a crowned king. This is the one-time home of Louis ? Philippe. Much in the papers today about the agreement between Mussolini and the Pope. The ?Era Nouvelle? sees in it a recognition by the Pope of Fascism. A deadly alliance. '

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Arthur W. Pollitt : The Enjoyment of Music

'16th February 1929. ?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)'

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Romain Rolland : Les Amis

'17th February 1929 (Sunday). After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my having to climb the great gate as B. had forgotten his key. Stayed in a little caf? until 11.35, and then home very tired. I brought away (Jean Christophe)? ?Les Amis?. This is the second of this series which I have read.'

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Romain Rolland : Les Amis

'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? writer I know and this book is as good as his best. I would like to have all his works and to read the whole of this ?Jean Christophe? series. After luncheon I read ?Dorian Gray? for a while, then a light tea, and off to Levallois. Stopped at Gare St. Lazare for my papers, ?Le Temps?, ?Observer? and ?Monde?.'

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Oscar Wilde : The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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: Le Temps

'25th February 1929 (Monday). Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow. A quiet day, reading the papers, and writing a little. The ?Temps? has an editorial on the ?expos?? of Bulgarian foreign policy made by Mr Burcof to the Sobrani?. The main text is, of course, the Serbo-Bulgar rapprochement. It is amusing to note how the ?Temps? applauds the movement for Balkan solidarity as a check on the dividing intrigues of certain foreign influence. Said influences probably Italy, Germany and perhaps Russia. No mention of France?s intensive campaign to establish a preponderating ?influence? in furtherance of her encirclement policy against Germany, and the creation of a counter-balance to the growing force of Italy.'

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: Le Journal

'26th February 1929. No paper today owing to state of finances. From Friday?s ?Journal? I note that the historic Tacna and Arica dispute has been settled. Peru takes Tacna and Chili Arica. Why couldn?t they have thought of that in 1883? Each wanted all, presumably, and hang on in hopes of getting it. Alsace Loraine, Schlewig, Upper Silesia ? all the same old story.'

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: Le Matin

'27th February 1929. Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty. Yesterday, Coty came out with a four column poster the size of a house triumphing over a verdict in the courts. Today the ?Matin? replies in kind. I love this French poster warfare. The ?Matin?s? claim that Coty must subsidise his paper in order to sell at 10c sounds rather more than reasonable, but for the ?Matin? to complain about subsidised newspapers is rather cheek if certain generally accepted rumours are to be believed. Still he has a neck to demand that the rest of the press come down to his price. Every one has not a huge private fund from which to stand the losses of a big newspaper. The ?Matin? says that the English National Citizens Union have passed a resolution asking the Government to legislate for the sterilisation of ?mentals? and incurables. So it has got as far as popular politics. Something will be done yet.'

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: [Road sign]

'3rd March 1929. At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arrived. Foreigners are always in a hurry to see Montmartre. So today we went up to the Place Pigalle and examined the boulevard exteriors from the ?Abbaie? to Weppler?s. Afterwards up the rue Lepic, where I related what I know of the street?s gruesome past, by the Moulin de la Galette to the Place du Tertre. From the front of the Sacr? Coeur we endeavoured to see something of the famous view but there was too much mist. We laughed at the notice to motorists ?Ralentissez; attention aux Petits Poulbots?. (Slow down, watch out for the Petit Poulbots). [Francisque Poulbot is one of the most famous French illustrators, especially illustrators of children. Poulbot is particularly known for his drawings of Paris street urchins. Poulbot loved to draw these children as shameless, and often malicious jokesters. Most of his work was published in the 1900s-30s]

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Pierre Benoit : Atlandide

'5th March 1929. Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine building. Photo of mother as one of the council notables. Finished ?Atlandide? (Pierre B?noit). It is a good story, excellently told, and an immense improvement on Rider Haggard.'

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Maxime : La M?re

'7th March 1929. Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).'

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: [newspapers]

'12th March 1929 Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.'

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Maxime Gorki : La M?re

'14th March 1929 ?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our souls?. (Gorki ? ?La M?re?) Just what have our Woodbine Willis meant in the face of this? [...] Gorki?s book would make most wonderful propaganda. Its simple beauty, idealistic appeal, and homely actuality would make it another ?Pilgrims Progress? or ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? with the worker in England. Why not a cheap library of such books run by the I.L.P. [Independent Labour Party]? A Socialist Everyman? ?Pelagn?e knew people who had freed themselves from hate and rapacity; she understood that if the number of these people increased, the black and terrible face of life would become more kindly and simple, finer and brighter?.'

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Walt Whitman : Song of the Open Road

'14th March 1929. I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, and talked of ?Wander-thirst?, of Stevenson, of gardens, of tobacco, and (with E.V.L. in our minds) of ?Punch?. I recommended some of the glorious days I have passed in the country beyond St. Cloud with this book for company, and recited Stevenson?s ?Requiem? which Miss M?ndel liked and copied. The Websters gave me three numbers of ?Punch? for my week-end reading.'

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Brooks : unknown

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

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Rudyard Kipling : unknown

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Oliver Wendell Holmes : unknown

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Artemus Ward : unknown

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Thomas de Quincey : Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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Charles Dickens : Sketches by Boz

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: [newspapers]

'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.'

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: Punch, or the London Charivari

'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by the splendid weather.'

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Maxime Gorki : La M?re

'20th March 1929. Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)'

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Anatole France : Le Petit Pierre

'21st March 1929. ?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).'

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Edmond Goncourt : La Faustin

'23rd March 1929 (Saturday). Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afternoon reading. ? La Faustin? (Edmond Goncourt)'.

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: [newspapers]

'24th March 1929 (Sunday). Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire upstairs to study the Epistle to the Romans. Melle M?ndel and I stayed outside, she reading ?La Faustin?, and I studying the week?s papers. I have had no English papers for two weeks, nor any news of mother.'

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Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, which struck me as having pretty descriptions, and I fancied I could write something of the same kind; and as a matter of curiosity I determined to make the attempt. I read both the few chapters of the intended tract ["Stories on the Lord's Prayer"], and the beginning of "Amy Herbert"to my sisters, and they liked them'.

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Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Amy Herbert

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, which struck me as having pretty descriptions, and I fancied I could write something of the same kind; and as a matter of curiosity I determined to make the attempt. I read both the few chapters of the intended tract ["Stories on the Lord's Prayer"], and the beginning of "Amy Herbert"to my sisters, and they liked them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor" in 1840): 'I did not give my name, and no one knew anything about it, except my mother and sisters. I have often vexed myself since -- thinking that I did not tell my father -- but I had a dread of any person talking to me about my writing, and I knew that if he was pleased he would not be able to keep himself from telling me so. I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on the sofa half asleep, as I thought; but he listened, and I think was interested, for he asked me what I was reading. I forget exactly what answer I made, but it certainly was not that I was reading anything of my own, and so I lost the opportunity of giving him pleasure.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

Thomas Hood : 'We watched her breathing through the night --'

Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas from Thomas Hood, 'We watched her breathing through the night --'

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : The Earl's Daughter

'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. [italics]Margaret Percival[end italics] I read to her entirely, and also a portion of [italics]Laneton Parsonage[end italics], and I remember being obliged to assure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story -- which was only completed after her death.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Margaret Percival

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Laneton Parsonage

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Bernardin de St Pierre : Paul et Virginie

'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but though I was told I would weep many tears in reading it I did not shed a single one. I reread it thinking perhaps to have read it too fast the first time, but although the second time it did not interest me less than the first, it did not make me weep. It is of no use to say this is a sign of insensibility. If they will teach me to cry when I will and then everything will melt me and make me cry, for after all I am a woman as they are'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

John Shore : [elegies on deaths of wife and child]

'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natural fashion, and though you greatly admire the poet yet you must yield to the soft and sympathising composition of the widowed Husband and childless father. It is not so when you read Lord Littleton's complaint on his Lady's death, the poetry is beautiful but less natural, less moving. He boasts with his grief, and indulges himself some digressions which show his extended knowledge but are not natural, I think, to a mind wholly occupied with despair'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

William Henry Lyttelton : [probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Unknown

William Robertson : The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England

'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's behaviour and though Mary's is very shameful yet I cannot help feeling a sort of partiality for her, a partiality which is a tribute that I pay to her endless misfortunes and which prompts me to think that if Elizabeth had sought protection in Mary's arms she would have found a sure azylum and a hasty succour there. Robertson in giving Mary's character, perfectly expressed what you must feel in reading her history. "You throw a veil over her frailties and faults, and approve of your tears as if they were shed for an object who drew much nearer to protection".'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

[n/a] : [English newspapers]

'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince was retiring from the armee of Conde... [the full story is then summarised, with no reaction]'

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Newspaper

Christoph Martin Wieland : Agathon

'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is very interesting and expressed with equal grace, elegance and nature. One thing which shows that no man is free of a vanity in which he seeks to hide is that the Author takes every opportunity to mention himself and appears afraid that "Agathon" should make you forget Weiland'.

Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edwards [Sewell's brother] there was no doubt that Newman is going over to Rome, which agrees but little with an observation made by Dr. Pusey to G. F. a short time since that no one could know how devoted a servant of the Church Newman was till after his death. The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church, and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling notion, but a sermon of Newman's I was reading to-night would be a great safeguard against being led into mischief by it. "Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

unknown : Article on the Jesuits

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked to me a little about William [Sewell]'s novel [italics]Hawkstone[end italics], doubting the fact told me about the Jesuits, and wishing they could be tried in a court of justice; and afterwards he gave me an article about them in the [italics]Oxford and Cambridge Review[end italics], most laudatory of them, and of Ignatius Loyola, and very condemnatory of Luther. It had no effect upon me however. There is too much of the partisan style about it, and it is too bombastic, and contains few facts....'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

: The Oxford and Cambridge Review

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

Cecilia Tilley : Chollerton

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846: 'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop decidedly. You see the same books time after time [...] It is an inconvenient shop too. No place to sit down at, and the books crowded too close to the door. I took up [italics]Chollerton[end italics] (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed strained and the fasting was brought forward prominently, and there seemed too much womanish humility.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Tales on the Game Laws

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics]Tales on the Game Laws[end italics] I began, but they are so dull to me that I have scarcely patience to finish. The thing I like about them is their fairness. The rich people are not all wretches, though Miss Martineau's sympathies are evidently with the poor.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

Alison : accounts of Napoleon's battles

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846: 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history are so dreadfully dry, after one has been writing and working all day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

: Life of Southey

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubington: 'I have been reading [italics]Southey's Life[end italics]; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book [...] [has] helped me more than any sermon. Southey's hard work and pecuniary anxieties come home to me. His plodding on, longing to be free; and yet his perfect contentment.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

John Ruskin : Lectures on Architecture and Painting

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end italics] which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exaggerated tirades against Romanism, but they are full of wonderful thought, and an intense feeling for truth'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

unknown : An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume)

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good deal, -- the second volume of [italics]Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life[end italics], which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and [italics]Hypatia[end italics] and two sermons of Dr. Pusey's against Germanism, and part of [italics]Hero Worship[end italics], to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of [italics]The Times[end italics] every evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Pusey : two sermons

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero-Worship

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

: pamphlets

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

: magazines

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

: The Times

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

St Paul : Epistle to the Hebrews

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews. I have taken this epistle for a particular study this Lent. It is a great favourite of mine. In so many ways it comes home to one's everyday trials and needs. Thinking of my birthday [19 February] threw me back into the past, and the description of our Lord having been made perfect through suffering seemed to harmonise with the great lesson which I suppose we all learn as we go on in life, that whatever we have done, or said, or thought, which may be in any way of value [...] is the fruit of suffering.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Life of Charlotte Bronte

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [italics]Life of Miss Bronte[end italics]. Years ago, when [italics]Jane Eyre[end italics] came out I read it. People said it was coarse, and I felt it was, but I felt also that the person who wrote it was not necessarily coarse-minded, that the moral of the story was intended to be good; but that it failed in detail. The life is intensely, painfully interesting. A purer, more high-minded person it seems there could scarcely be, wonderfully gifted, and with a man's energy and power of will and passionate impulse; and yet gentle and womanly in all her ways [goes on to reflect upon Bronte's depressive temperament, and to characterise her religious feeling as 'abstract belief not personal love']'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Charles de Remusat : 'French Essays on Literature'

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]: 'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end italics] [sic] -- so clever they are! Charles de Remusat describes the French of the eighteenth century as "Des gens qui ne lisaient qu'afin de pouvoir parler". Could anything be more apt?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire : Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868: 'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end italics]. He starts with premises open to much discussion, and all his arguments fall to the ground unless one can accept the premises.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

anon : slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia]

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach: 'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is actually declared. We heard the news this morning as we were at breakfast in the [italics]Salle[end italics]. Some one (I think it was the master of the hotel) came up and laid before me a printed slip of paper. I had just been talking about railway trains, and thought this had something to do with them. When I read it you can understand the surprise.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: loose slip of paper

Richard Rowe : Episodes in an Obscure Life

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire: 'I have been reading [italics]Episodes of an Obscure Life[end italics] [sic], and have made up my mind that I know as little of the life of the East End of London, or rather of the lives of the people, as I do of those of the angels. Write, or think, or work, as one may, there are thousands one could never reach, simply because one could not understand them.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Unknown

: The Times

Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Miss Sewell's arduous life-work came to an end [...] in 1890, and from that year to 1897 she kept up many outside activities [...] keenly interested in events of the day, reading the [italics]Times[end italics] aloud in the evening or some book of note.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Newspaper

unknown : ['books of note']

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Thomas Skinner Surr : A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion

'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a very good Novel - Some of the characters such as the Duchess of Devonshire, Duchess of Girdon, and Sir Walter Farquhar are admirably delineated in it'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Book

Anna Laetitia Barbauld : 'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing'

From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life": 'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and no Eyes." It was written, I think, by Mrs. Barbauld. I read it when I was a child. It went to show that two persons going for a walk through the same fields might return home with totally different impressions made upon them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Fanny Kemble : Autobiography

From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble motives acting can be undertaken as a profession, we have all learnt lately by the publication of Mrs. Fanny Kemble's autobiography [...] certainly after reading it I do not think any one can say that acting is incompatible with the highest womanly dignity, and most sincere religious purpose.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Trench : sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident'

In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident / It is the very place God meant for thee,' with the remark that this poem 'has often been a help to me when I have felt inclined to wish my position other than it is.'

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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

?Maria ?Edgeworth : 'To-morrow'

In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morrow", in which the procrastinator gives the history of the misfortunes that his habit has involved him in, and breaks off abruptly, leaving it to his editor to say that the story was to be finished [italics]to-morrow[end italics]. I don't know that the tale actually prevented me from procrastinating when I was a child, but it imprinted firmly in my mind that procrastination was a dangerous fault, and the impression has remained with me and been very useful ever since.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Jane Taylor : The Contributions of Q.Q.

In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' was 'an impossibility': 'I can recollect the book which first brought to me the conviction that such mental control was a duty. It was a volume of short essays and stories, called [italics]The Contributions of Q.Q.[end italics], by Jane Taylor, the well-known author of [italics]Hymns for Infant Minds[end italics]. It brought me a new idea just at the time when I most needed the help [...] I am glad to be able to acknowledge thankfully the aid that this old-fashioned, book, with its quaint title, afforded me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'One berth was occupied by George Day... He appeared to be always humble, always contented and resigned, always grateful to God for the abundance of His mercies, frequently praying, or reading, or listening to his Bible.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Day Print: Book

Robert Louis Stevenson : The Master of Ballantrae

On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in his way. 'What in heaven's name is it?' I asked. 'This, my friend. For years a certain critic has practically damned my works - said there was nothing really in them - and now this person, whose ability I have always admired despite the fact that I have suffered, has declared: "Stevenson has at last produced one of the best books of the season, and the claim of his friends seems fully justified, for the work is full of genius."' His face was all aglow with feverish excitement. 'Who is this wonderful critic, Stevenson, whose praise you so enjoy? And what bitter things has he said of you before?' 'We will drop the severe things, Moors. You would never guess, if I gave you all morning, who it is who has at last admitted me to be in the front rank of my profession. It is Mrs Oliphant, my dear sir - Mrs Oliphant!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book, Serial / periodical

n/a] : [newspaper]

'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of notice, till on my arrival in Moffatt, I discovered among my fellow travellers, along with three Lancashire cotton men, a pure species of popinjay - of whom all I can now say, is that he was much shocked at seeing [no] "roasbeef fo suppa" and expressed his grief and surprise by several nondescript interjections; that he was unable to determine whether the fowl on the table was a tame duck or wild, and thereupon "did patiently incline" to the reasonings of an ancient Scottish gourmand who at length succeeded in settling his mind upon this important subject; and that upon my inquiriing after the news of the paper which he was reading, he informed me that the Aachodoocs had returned to England, and that (this he preluded by three nods of satisfaction) the Prince Regent was gone to Brighton.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' Print: Newspaper

Giovanni Perrone : Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica

In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, "Catechismi intorno al Protestanteismo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica" (1861), following remark: 'An Italian catechism, published some years ago, has lately been reprinted, in which the people are warned against the insidious heresies of Protestantism generally, and of the English in particular. The lies it contains send one into fits of laughter.' [Discussion of text continued after examples].

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

unknown : Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangelica] which has been lent me, giving an account of its formation, plainly owns that it does not pretend to be a regular church.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind; but we can't quite make out where we are, only it is half-way between Spezzia and Sestri, and on the road to Genoa.': 'We started after six [am], M and myself on the outside seat [?of coach]. What with pleasant conversation, the reading of "Rienzi" and the newspaper, and occasional little naps, I managed to spend an agreeable day.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

: newspaper

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Newspaper

anon : [novel]

'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a friend of Cavour and acquaintance of Garibaldi, previously encountered by Sewell in a railway carriage], who had promised to call upon us, came [...] to bring us tickets of admission for Monday [...] He was as voluble and excited as before, and produced a novel which he had lately written, and which he begged us to accept. A most remarkable production it was, as I found when I read it! ___ the Pope, Antonelli, and Lamorciere, being brought in by name, and made to take part in a plot of atrocious and not very readable wickedness.'

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth

'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a youthful way of talking about Europe which makes the book read rather like a first novel. The American touch, of course. It is rather painful to read, though. Fran is altogether too infuriating, too cold-bloodedly dishonoured. For she doesn?t believe her own talk however Lewis may be eager at odd moments to think her rather a poor little thing. It is great reading, though. Why does he not put in a little more about the contrasting women, the real, honest, dignified, courageous person that some women do manage to be ? ???.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Sinclair Lewis : Dodsworth

'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs. She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is something of a dunderhead though he is so honest and well meaning. If she were more honest with herself, and had more of his normal sort of simplicity she would do better for herself and perhaps get more out of him. She has him scared stiff.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: 'the only unpleasant incident of my whole stay in Bonchurch was connected with the evening readings. The book in question was "Cranford," and we were all electrified when Aunt Elizabeth [the pupils' name for Sewell] came to a full stop in the beginning of the part where the nephew plays a practical joke -- something connected with a baby -- on the old ladies. "I will leave this out," said Miss Sewell, looking quite stern. The she turned the page and took up the story further on. [goes on to relate how a new girl who was caught looking for the offending passage in the book was subsequently expelled]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Susan Glaspell : Road to the Temple

'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading. I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?. For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class. The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?. The author lives in Birkenhead.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

C.E. Montague : Right off the Map

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Rose Macauley : Keeping Up Appearances

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Olwen Ward Campbell : Shelley and the Unromantics

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Hermann Sudermann : The Song of Songs

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Carl Van Vechten : Nigger Heaven

'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be very precious I understand as a first edition. Will Wood left me a Tauchnitz edition of ?Nigger Heaven? by a coloured writer Carl Van Vechten. ?Nigger Heaven? is Haarlem ? a New York district mostly inhabited by coloured people. One does not like American ?last living? any the better for being black rather than white ? and there is very little else to it, except one or two less mentionable points of biological interest whose significance, if grasped, might shake the complacency of the more stupid whites.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Rebecca West : The Strange Necessity

'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even Robert Lynd considers it difficult. I?ve just finished my second reading ? and will go through it again to copy out definitions. She has really a first class mind.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Oswald Spengler : Decline of the West

'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Decline of the West. Have just finished ? Du cot? de chez Swann?. By the way let me know a list of good modern French novels ? especially novels of ideas ? the Catholic movement, the socialists, etc?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Du Cote de Chez Swann

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Erich Maria Remarque : All Quiet on the Western Front

'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Row ? and rowed about it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Julian Benda : Belphegor

'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Bergson, R?guy, Claudel, crowd ? and I?m with him all the time. You should try to get his ?La trahison des clercs? ? it has a great vogue here. It?s a book I should like to have myself, in French.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

: [French newspapers]

'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and keeps me more than abreast of current thought ? for England is always behind chronologically in Philosophy though she is alright when she starts.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Newspaper

unknown : Mahatma Gandhi

'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at the moment, but someone yesterday lent me Katherine Mayo?s ?Mother India?, and all my thoughts are boulevers?es [upset] by the horrors she pictures.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Katherine Mayo : Mother India

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Oakroyd

'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterpiece.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

: [French newspapers]

'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to complete ?Le Blois Vert?, in this rush. But I must tell you that my little collection of French books is my most cherished possession.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Newspaper

Theodore de Banville : Gringoire

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Le Blois Vert

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Margaret Steen : Matador

'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is quite a document on Spain to day and apparently written on the spot. I believe Margaret Steen is a Liverpool woman and she is credited as a careful writer. I must try for ?Stallion? which made a big noise last year. But ?Tu viens? [Are you coming] seems to be the kind of thing I turn to best ? observation of life without the painted veil of fiction.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Oliver Onions : The Open Secret

'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was a great favourite of mine once. He was a past master of the topical novel.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

John Maynard Keynes : The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear that Cambridge and London were a bit archaic as to the fundamentals of their economics. I stood for an hour arguing the main thesis (of course not worked out) with Harold one night at Euston. He had to walk home to Battersea Park in consequence. A year or so before I had covered reams with letters of vituperation against Prof: Pigou, till Stanley became furious ? also on the point. I don?t think it should need so large a book to get it over, I am also going to read Dodsworth when Gerry isn?t looking.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Arthur Cecil Pigou : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Montague : D?senchantement

'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me it was wonderful to see in print for the first time ? all the wretched facts that were ordinary knowledge to you and me when we returned from the war.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Gabouis : Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial

'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Mauriac. Also Alexander Werth?s ?Before Munich? and a collection of the speeches of Daladier 1934 ? 1940, (these in English). At the moment I have ?Rond Point des Champs Elys?es? de Paul Maraud, and ?The French at Home? of Philip Carr.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Francois Mauriac : Les Anges Noirs

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Alexander Werth : Before Munich

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Deladier : [collection of speeches]

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Paul Maraud : Rond Point des Champs Elys?es

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Philip Carr : The French at Home

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Life of Turgot

'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. At present I am going through a life of Turgot ? the latest, and a book on ?French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages? by Albert Guerard.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Albert Guerard : French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

unknown : Life of Orage

'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him personally during the last phase ? the ?New English Weekly? time. But it was competent and pleased me well, because it left out all the chit-chat about women etc, which was always superfluous when Orage was in question. He seemed to me a man, one of the few, (your father was really another) who could quite well have dispensed with women altogether, except in the most obvious way, and of course women like me, like men of that type, as we also can stand alone (yes, really, I can ? but I am not the better for it ? it arouses in me my old sense of arrogant detachment which I am inclined to think is sinful).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Provence

'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provence?. He died this year ? how sad he must have been in poor old London. But all you loved best in Provence comes out in that book ? and in the end the author says we must come back to it, learn to plant our cabbages ? and to cook them ? or we are doomed. How I regret that I could not send you that book ? but alas !! By the way I sent a ?Pied Piper? for Shirley. I hope it arrives.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

A.L. Bacharach : The Musical Companion

'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ever? Perhaps not. He was one of the ?New Age? crowd I met in the wonderful Easter Week of 1917 ? just before we went to France. He is at the London Schl of Econ: now, but then he seemed to be just doing journalism and a bit of W.E.A. work. This book is jolly for me. Its just a straightforward manual of music ? and fills in all the gaps of one?s knowledge that get in the way when trying to listen intelligently.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Leon Daudet : Clemenceau

'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (Clemenceau) that I find thoroughly repugnant. I suppose I ought to read Ren? Benjamin?s ?life?, as I heard him lecture on it at Bordeaux, but certainly I do not find the ?Tiger? a pleasant person in any way at all. But I find Daudet rather attractive, and indeed surprisingly reasonable in his criticism of people whose politics must have been the opposite of his own. The exception is Briand, but I cannot imagine any human being so disgusting as the person described by Daudet under that name ? it is impossible. Malvy and Caillaux also get it hot. But there are descriptions of the Goncourt group which I liked very much, and altogether I enjoyed the ?Frenchness? of the writer.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Havelock Ellis : From Rousseau to Proust

'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? writers of the period between the two named. It was excellent ? you know I am a classic ? so I naturally admire a critic who makes all the ?back to nature? people abnormals, and their genius merely Peter Parishness to the nth: I think you have heard me say that many times in one form or another. The best thing in the book however, was an appreciation of ?The Grand Meaulnes?. The essay appeared originally as an introduction to the English translation of the book, and really is a fine bit of work. I am going to try and find the book if possible. It is called ?The Wanderer?.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

D.W. Brogan : The Development of Modern France

'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1870 ? 1939) by D W Brogan, Fellow of Peterhouse and professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge. It is a great book, and I am learning about many people who were formerly just streets to me. Remember rue Albert de Mun, I now find Albert to have been quite a sizeable person. You remember I expressed in my last letter my dislike of Clemenceau as biographed by L?on Daudet. Such mention as I find of him in this book up to the moment, (?L?Affaire?) still seem to make him pretty dingy, as Harold would say I shall have to read it several times, (the book I mean). For light relief I have Edna Ferber?s autobiography ?A Peculiar Treasure?. It is specially worth while, a plain straight record of a real hard worker, thrilled with her job, and wanting nothing else. She has written the book stressing always that she is a Jew and this gives of course, an added interest to the work. If it comes your way, its worth reading.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Edna Ferber : A Peculiar Treasure

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book

Lindley Murray : English grammar

'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules of punctuation, I applied myself to the study of Lindley Murray's grammar -- then the one accepted authority for English people. He gave seventeen rules for the right placing of the comma, and I thought it my duty to endeavour to master them. But my patience did not hold out [...] I threw aside the seventeen rules of punctuation, and in their stead placed on one mental page the simple definitions of the respective values of periods, colons, semi-colons, and commas which I had learnt as a child, and then took which ever common sense and observation pointed out as suitable to my purpose; and in the end I found that I had escaped any special criticism.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

William Pinnock : Catechism

Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely perfectly the chief events in the reigns of the English kings given in Pinnock's Catechism, and could go through the dates without a mistake.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

: New Testament Gospels

Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lord's Prayer and the Catechism; almost too familiar, indeed, for I read them day after day as a lesson, and thus in a certain degree lost the sense of their meaning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

St Matthew : Matthew 2:1

'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmaster living in a back street in our native town to give my eldest sister and myself lessons when we were about ten and eight years of age [...] But the lessons did not last long. The tears I shed over the difficulties of the first verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew, which was the material for our first Latin lesson, were so bitter that they were too much for my mother's tender heart, and I was allowed to give up the study [...] The failure of this attempt, which was never renewed, has been a regret to me all my life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mangall : Questions

Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises in grammar -- lessons in mythology and upon the English Constitution learnt by heart from Mangall's Questions, the outlines of the rise of nations, with Roman, Grecian, and French history (the latter read in French), Mrs. Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry and Political Economy, and Joyce's Scientific Dialogues.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

unknown : [texts on French history]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mrs Marcet : Conversations on Chemistry

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mrs Marcet : Conversations on Political Economy

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Joyce : Scientific Dialogues

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Lady Barker : Letters from New Zealand

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Lady Barker's Letters from New Zealand almost everyone knows. They are lively and graphic. I suspect, from what I have heard from my New Zealand friends, that they are rather highly coloured, but they give a very vivid impression of the pleasures and toils of life in the Antipodes, and are good for reading aloud.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

George Kennan : Tent Life in Siberia

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Tent Life in Siberia. -- Not a very new book, but interesting from its account of northern scenery and civilization.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

J. A. Froude : Short Essays on Great Subjects

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Froude's Short Essays on Great Subjects. -- I mention this book with a certain reservation, because, with all my admiration of Mr. Froude's talents, I certainly do not agree with him in principle [...] "Calvinism" appears to me to be about anything but Calvinism. It is rather an exposition of Mr. Froude's Protestant view of Christianity; but it is interesting and suggestive. Several of the other essays are on the colonial policy of England, and will be chiefly attractive to those who have colonial sympathies; but they are very clever.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Count Beugnot : Memoirs

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Count Beugnot's Memoirs I have been reading in the original, and I have come to the conclusion that the book is likely to be more agreeable to an English reader in the English dress which Miss Yonge has given it. So much of it refers to individuals and politics exclusively French; but in any form it must be interesting at this time, when France is, as it was then, undergoing a process of re-construction.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Frederick William Robinson : Christie's Faith

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself. The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way antagonistic to it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

J. G. Sharp : Culture and Religion

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Culture and Religion, by J. G. Sharp, is a delightful little book, which should be read and thought over till it is fully mastered.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.N.: 'Repeat the 22nd verse of the 6th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.N. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 14th verse of 6th, and 7th and 20th verses of 8th chpter of St Matthew'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.G.: 'Repeat the Collect and 15th and 16th, also 14th verse of 17th chapter of St John.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.G. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.D.: 'Repeat the Collect and 13th and 14th chapters of St Luke.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.D. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.M.: 'Repeat the Collect, the Epistles of Titus and Philemon, and 3rd chapter of Hebrews.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.M. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). G.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 12th verse of 1st chapter of 2nd Epistle of Corinthians.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.R. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain). W.G.: 'Repeat the Collect and 2nd, 3rd and 4th chapters of St Matthew.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.G. Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfortable ... Mr Kingsmill was particularly kind in lending me some excellent books, in which I took great delight.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.G. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Extract from schoolmaster's journal: G.B., aged 30: 'on his admission, began by repeating several of the Psalms; he then commenced the gospel of St John, and repeated a chapter everyday till it was finished, when he was taken off to do some prison work, but subsequently resumed, and continuously repeating a chapter, sometimes two, of other portions daily. The schoolmaster thinks this man will have committed to memory the whole of the New Testament before the termination of his imprisonment, and there are, at present in the gaol, he asserts, five others who have nearly accomplished the same task.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: 'G.B., 30, Reg. no 388. - A convicted felon, who had been in another prison for a similar offence. When committed appeared hardened and very unpromising, but now shews decided improvement of disposition and character. Has been in prison nine months, and has committed to memory the whole of the New Testament, as far as the Epistle to the Hebrews.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

Accounts of prisoners: G.B., 30, Reg. no. 388: 'This prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. His conduct has been very pleasing. He continues to speak with much thankfulness of the provision made for his mental and moral improvement. He has repeated portions of the Old Testament and nearly the whole of the New Testament.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book

Charlotte Anley : Miriam; Or, the Power of Truth

Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827: 'As we were going down the stairs yesterday Lady M. said to me -- "I am reading a little book now called "Miriam"-- if you should happen to meet with it you will find in its early part, one page which puts me strongly in mind of you -- of your character -- but you shall not see it [italics]here[end italics]." I did not know what to say, but felt very uncomfortable & looked very foolish -- promising myself to lay hold of "Miriam" & of Lady Margaret's opinion respecting me, at the first opportunity.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Margaret Maria Cocks Print: Book

St Chrysostom : 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthians, which relate to the Lord's Supper. I have felt every now & then, that he [italics]must[end italics] hold transubstantiation, -- & then I look at your pencil marks upon those very passages, & recollect your opinion of his holding no such doctrine -- & then I am in perplexity'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd Print: Book

Sir Edward Coke : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and send them to my brother George who begins his circuits next year as a BARRISTER!! I shall be curious to observe how his enthusiasm for his profession, which actually set him down to read Coke among this exquisite scenery, when he came down with me last year [...] will bear up under the infliction.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Print: Book

Robert Browning : Paracelsus

Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received your poem [Sordello] [...] You much overrate my judgement, but whatever it is, you shall have it, before I have redd it so often as I redd Paracelsus.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Savage Landor Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'

Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote out and sent to me the other day, Ba's ballad, unknown to her -- & by doing so, Papa says he has committed a breach of morality & he refuses to read it. I, not being quite so strict, have read it & am quite overflowing with gratitude to George for being so very IMMORAL -- It is most beautiful [...] but SO horrible [...] my hair felt inclined to turn [italics]upward[end italics] as I read it!'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Manuscript: Unknown

Mary Russell Mitford : Tragedies

'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [...] You will find it in "Les Anecdotes Germaniques," page 151, and as I have experienced so much pleasure from the perusal and representation of your beautiful tragedies, I shall have great satisfaction in being of the smallest use to you.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.E. Lynch Cotton Print: Book

Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'Orville : Les Anecdotes Germaniques

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.E. Lynch Cotton Print: Book

Dr. Channing : Sermons

'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, both because I think them good and because the last of them, "Gleams of Truth", is a practical illustration of the principles touching the relations of the more favoured and less favoured classes of society, which are so ably and so beautifully set forth in the separate sermon of Dr. Channing which I send with them.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Ticknor Print: Book

Catharine M Sedgwick : Hope

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Ticknor Print: Book

: The Times

'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a word to say in politics".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

Mary Shelley : Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843

'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of work - written much of it in a state of pain that makes me look at its pages now as if written in a dream. The second volume only tells anything new - I fear I shall be very much ashamed of it' [letter to Leigh Hunt]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Leigh Hunt Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [on the Greek Christian poets], I put on a veil and tell you that Mr Kenyon thought it well done altho' "labor thrown away from the unpopularity of the subject" -- that Miss Mitford was very much pleased [...] that Mrs Jamieson read them "with great pleasure" unconsciously of the author, -- & that Mr Horne the poet & Mr Browning the poet were not behind in approbation! Mr Browning is said to be learned in Greek [...] & of Mr Horne I should suspect something similar. Miss Mitford & Mrs Jamieson altho' very gifted & highly cultivated women are not Graecians & therefore judge the papers simply as English compositions. 'The single unfavorable opinion is Mr Hunter's who thinks that the criticisms are not given with either sufficient seriousness or diffidence, & that there is a painful sense of effort through the whole.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hengist Horne Print: Serial / periodical

Elizabeth Barrett : 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Barrett Hunter Print: Serial / periodical

William Pinnock : [?] Catechism of the History of England

'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

William Pinnock : Catechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Sarah Trimmer : Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Church Catechism

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing 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

Joseph Addison : Spectator

'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addison's "Cato" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book

Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book

Mason : [Plays]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Joseph Addison : Cato

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Gottfried August Burger : Lenore

'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a beautiful copy of Burger's "Lenore", illustrated by striking line engravings, and having the German on one page and the English translation on the other.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell 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

Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The

'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large portions of "The Lady of the Lake" which are fresh in my memory at this moment'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell 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

Matthew Henry : Communicant's Companion

'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have taken months to answer - and I tried to find time for self-examination out of school hours, and at first thought myself obliged to answer every question, and at last gave up the attempt in despair. my own sense told me it was in vain'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliazbeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

William Russell : History of Modern Europe

'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

William Robertson : History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Isaac Watts : Improvement of the Mind, The

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[unknown] : [History of Venetian Doges]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

'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 grammar]

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

Walter Scott : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Walter Scott : Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk

'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the floor of the other room was covered with Mr Heathcote's books. They were very kindly left for our use, and I made an acquaintance with Sir Walter Scott's "Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk", and read Shakespeare to Ellen, and led a quiet life, seeing no one'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

William Shakespeare : [unknown]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Laetitia Hawkins : Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline

'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived from the fact that the large bare house reminded me of a description of one like it in an old novel by Miss Hawkins - "The Countess and Gertrude".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Joseph Butler : Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature

'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration, and which I stumbled upon, as it seemed accidentally (though doubtless it was a Providential help sent me), while we were spending a few days at the Hermitage. I took it up first for curiosity, and read it through nearly, but not quite to the end; feeling very much afraid all the time that some one would inquire into my studies, and being greatly humiliated by an observation made by William, who one day found me with it in my hand. His surprised tone as he exclaimed, "You can't understand that", made me shrink into my shell of reserve, and for years I never owned to anyone that Butler's "Analogy" had been to me, as it has been to hundreds, the stay of a troubled intellect and a weak faith'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Tracts for the Times

'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as my brother William's opinions had by that time become marked, he soon succeeded in indoctrinating us all with them. A very great comfort it certainly was to myself to have my ideas cleared upon subjects which had long been floating about in my brain, and worrying me almost without my knowing it. Especially it was a relief to me to find great earnestness and devotion in a system which allowed of reserve in expression, and did not make the style of conversation, which I had met with in the only definitely religious tales I had read, a necessary part of Christianity. Mrs Sherwood's "Tales" and others of a similar kind, described children as quoting texts, and talking of their feelings in an unnatural way, or what seemed to me unnatural; and I had really suffered so much at school from things said to me which jarred upon my taste that it was perfect rest to be able to talk upon religious subjects without hearing or using cant phrases'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mary Martha Sherwood : [Tales]

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer

'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Amy Herbert

'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Charlotte Yonge : Daisy Chain, The

'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel in "The Daisy Chain". Great interest was expressed by her and her mother in Mrs Mozley (Cardinal Newman's sister), the author of a tale called the "Fairy Bower", which had appeared shortly before. It was the precursor of the many tales, illustrative of the Oxford teaching, that were written at this period, and which were hailed with special satisfaction by young people, who turned fom the texts, and prayers, and hymns, which Mrs Sherwood had introduced into her stories, and yet needed something higher in tone than Miss Edgeworth's morality'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Stories on the Lord's Prayer

'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on the sofa half asleep, as I thought; but he listened, and I think was interested, for he asked me what I was reading. I forget exactly what answer I made, but it certainly was not that I was reading anything of my own, and so I lost the opportunity of giving him pleasure'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Mary Martha Sherwood : [Tales based on Church Catechism]

'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to me by Mrs Sherwood's stories on the same subject, which in my childhood had been a great source of Sunday amusement'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Earl's Daughter, The

'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. "Margaret Percival" I read to her entirely, and also a portion of "Laneton Parsonage", and I remember being obliged to reassure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story - which was only completed after her death'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Margaret Percival

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

Elizabeth Missing Sewell : Laneton parsonage

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Manuscript: Unknown

John Henry Newman : [a sermon]

'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling notion, but a sermon of Newman's I was reading to-night would be a great safeguard against being led into mischief by it, "Obedience, the remedy for religious pereplexity".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell 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

Cecilia Frances Tilley : Chollerton: A tale of our own times

'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed strained and the fasting was brought forward prominently, and there seemed too much womanish humility. In one place the authoress cannot follow a young clergman, by description, in his feelings, or intrude "into that sacred edifice which formerly a woman's foot was forbidden to profane". This is, if I remember rightly, the drift of the observation, and really my humility cannot reach that depth. I think I [italics] can [end italics] imagine something of what a clergyman might feel, and I should never consider it an intrusion to go wherever men go, taking them as men. Of course the altar is different; but there the distinction is not between men and women, but between God and man'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Harriet Martineau : Forest and Game-Law Tales

'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws" I began, but they are so dull to me that I have scarcely patience to finish. The thing I like about them is their fairness. The rich people are not all wretches,though Miss Martineau's sympathies are evidently with the poor'.

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Archibald Alison : History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII

'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history are so dreadfully dry, after one has been writing and working all day.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Robert Southey : Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey

'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's in actuality, have helped me more than any sermon. Southey's hard work and pecuniary anxieties come home to me'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

John Ruskin : Lectures on Architecture and Painting

'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exaggerated tirades against Romanism, but they are full of wonderful thought, and an intense feeling for truth, which must have an effect, one would think, upon those who read, or who have heard them'.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

J.W. Kaye : Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe

'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: Book

Charles Kingsley : Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Edward Bouverie Pusey : [Sermons]

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book

[n/a] : Times, The

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

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton : poems

Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844: 'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I thought very good of its kind. More high-minded in its personal aggrievedness, and less reproachful & vindictive than Ld Byron.'

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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hengist Horne

Wiliam Carleton : 'tales' (extracts)

Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844: 'Do you happen to know anything of the Irish tales of Carlton [sic]? Some [italics]extracts[end italics] I have seen I think excellent.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Hengist Horne Print: Unknown

Richard Hengist Horne : A New Spirit of the Age

Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844: 'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the Age] all marked through. He has marked with great admiration various passages written violently of by [italics]others[end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Leigh Hunt Print: Book

: notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

'[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28 September 1846 issue of Galignani's Messenger, an English-language newspaper started in Paris by Giovanni Galignani (1757-1821) and his English wife in 1814. The notice read: "R. Browning, Jun., Esq., of Hatcham, to Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of E. M. Barrett, Esq., of Wimpole Street."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Fothergill Chorley Print: Newspaper

Robert Browning : Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession

Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the British Museum, with a Poem published in 1833, entitled "Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession," which elicited my warm admiration, and which, having failed in an attempt to procure a copy at the publisher's, I have since transcribed. It seems to me, in reading this beautiful composition, that it presents a noticeable analogy in style and feeling to your first acknowledged work, "Paracelsus": so much so indeed as to induce a suspicion that it might actually be written by yourself [goes on, very formally, to ask whether this is the case].'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print: Book

unknown : unknown [novels]

'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the deck, and gambling in the smoking-room.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Warrington Steevens Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus

Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbeline just to see if there mightnt be more in the great William than I supposed. And I was quite upset! Really and truly I am now let in to [the] company of worshippers -- though I still feel a little oppressed by his -- greatness I suppose [...] I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II -- I thought them very near the great man -- with more humanity I should say -- not all on such a grand tragic scale [comments further on points of comparison and contrast between Shakespeare and Marlowe].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

Christopher Marlowe : Edward II

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Cymbeline

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

: eighteenth-century texts

Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have written quite a lot [...] Also I have read a good deal, mostly 18th century'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

Walter Savage Landor : Pericles and Aspasia

'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her surroundings (unpublished).'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

Virginia Stephen : short stories

'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short narratives, all apparently lost, unless one was "Phyllis and Rosamond", dated June 1906'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Madge Vaughan Manuscript: Unknown

Ernest Renan : Cahiers de Jeunesse

Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it is beautiful -- like the chime of silver bells [...] I think it a virtue in the French language that it submits to prose, whereas English curls and knots and breaks off in short spasms of rage. Also I am reading my dear Christina Rossetti [...] the first of our English poetesses [...] Then I am reading your Keats, with the pleasure of one handling great luminous stones. I rise and shout in ecstacy, and my eyes brim with such pleasure that I must drop the book and gaze from the window. It is a beautiful edition.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

Christina Rossetti : poems

Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it is beautiful -- like the chime of silver bells [...] Also I am reading my dear Christina Rossetti [...] the first of our English poetesses [...] Then I am reading your Keats, with the pleasure of one handling great luminous stones. I rise and shout in ecstacy, and my eyes brim with such pleasure that I must drop the book and gaze from the window. It is a beautiful edition.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

John Keats : poems

Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it is beautiful -- like the chime of silver bells [...] Also I am reading my dear Christina Rossetti [...] the first of our English poetesses [...] Then I am reading your Keats, with the pleasure of one handling great luminous stones. I rise and shout in ecstacy, and my eyes brim with such pleasure that I must drop the book and gaze from the window. It is a beautiful edition.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

John Keats : poems

Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is about the greatest of all [...] I like cool Greek Gods, and amber skies, and shadow like running water, and all his great palpable words -- symbols for immaterial things.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

Henry James : The American Scene

Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalmed in a block of smooth amber: it is not unpleasant, very tranquil, as a twilight shore -- but such is not the stuff of genius: no, it should be a swift stream.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

G. E. Moore : Principia Ethica

Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908: 'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling to the remotest part of my brain, and setting up a feeble disturbance, hardly to be called thought. It is almost a physical feeling, as though some little coil of brain unvisited by any blood so far, and pale as wax, had got a little life into it at last, but had not strength to keep it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

: 'new novels'

Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own writing! I read 3 new novels in two days: Leonard waltzed through the Old Wives Tale like a kitten after its tail: after this giddy career I have now run full tilt into Crime et Chatiment, fifty pages before tea, and I see there are only 800; so I shall be through in no time. It is directly obvious that he [Dostoevsky] is the greatest writer ever born'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

George Meredith : letters

Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse enormous vanity, which at last made him unapproachable like Meredith whose letters I am reading -- who seems to me as hard as an old crab at the bottom of the sea'.

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Clive Bell : Art

'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia [Woolf], reading it in the midst of her [mental] illness, did not much appreciate it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Henry James : 'works'

Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell me what merit you find in Henry James. I have disabused Leonard [Woolf, husband] of him; but we have his works here, and I read, and can't find anything but faintly tinged rose water, urbane and sleek, but vulgar, and pale as Walter Lamb. Is there really any sense in it? I admit I can't be bothered to snuff out his meaning when it's very obscure. I am beginning the Insulted and Injured [Dostoevsky, 1862]; which sweeps me away. Have you read it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Insulted and Injured

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present

Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], and wondering whether all his rant has made a scrap of difference practically [...] I become steadily more feminist, owing to the Times, which I read at breakfast and wonder how this preposterous masculine fiction [the war] keeps going a day longer -- without some vigorous young woman pulling us together and marching through it'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

: The Times

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

Sophocles : Electra

Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Sophocles the day after we came -- the Electra, which has made me plan to read all Greek straight through [...] I found great consolation during the influenza in the works of Leonard Merrick, a poor unappreciated second-rate pot-boiling writer of stories about the stage, whom I deduce to be a negro, mulatto, or quadroon; at any rate he has a grudge against the world, and might have done much better if he hadn't at the age of 20 married a chorus girl, had by her 15 coffee coloured brats and lived for the rest of the time in a villa in Brixton, where he ekes out his living by giving lessons in elocution to the natives'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Leonard Merrick :

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure

Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best place in the world for reading Shakespeare. Asheham is very lovely at the moment [...] I've been sitting in the garden all the afternoon, reading Measure for Measure, looking at the trees, and thinking as much of you as of anything.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

: classical Greek literature

Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I understand anything they say; also I have read the whole of Milton, without throwing any light upon my own soul, but that I rather like. Don't you think it very queer though that he entirely neglects the human heart? Is that the result of writing one's masterpiece at the age of 50?'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

John Milton : complete works

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Ethel Smyth : Impressions that Remained (vol. 2)

Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919: 'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triumphantly, through sheer force of honesty. It's a pity she can't write; for I don't suppose one could read it again. But it fascinates me all the same. I saw her at a concert two days ago -- striding up the gangway in coat and skirt and spats and talking at the top of her voice [...] she keeps up the figure of the nineties to perfection. Of course the book is the soul of the nineties.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Walter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor

Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by the portrait of Ottoline [Morrell] which appears from time to time [...] There is no suspense or mystery: water is all semen: I get a little bored, and make out the riddles too easily. Only this puzzles me: what does it mean when a woman [Gudrun] does eurythmics in front of a herd of Highland cattle?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : Women in Love

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : Bliss

Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Party], and don't mean to. I've read Bliss; and it was so brilliant, -- so hard, and so shallow, and so sentimental that I had to rush to the bookcase for something to drink. Shakespeare, Conrad, even Virginia Woolf.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Marcel Proust : A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922: 'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume comes in very handy. Last night I started on vol 2 [A l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs] of him (the novel) and propose to sink myself in it all day [...] Oh if I could write like that! I cry. And at the moment such is the astonishing vibration and saturation and intensification that he produces -- theres [sic] something sexual in it -- that I feel I [italics]can[end italics] write like that, and seize my pen and then I [italics]can't[end italics] write like that. Scarcely anyone so stimulates the nerves of language in me: it becomes an obsession. But I must return to Swann.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Rebecca West : The Judge

Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flying particles; indeed I had hastily to tie the judge tight and send it back to Mudies [Library] half finished. But this irreticence does not make me think any the worse of her human qualities [...] I do admire poor old Henry [James], and actually read through the Wings of a Dove [1902] last summer, and thought it such an amazing acrobatic feat, partly of his, partly of mine, that I now look upon myself and Henry James as partners in merit. I made it all out. But I felt very ill for some time afterwards. I am now reading Joyce, and my impression, after 200 out of 700 pages, is that the poor young man has got the dregs of a mind compared even with George Meredith. I mean if you could weigh the meaning on Joyces [sic] page it would be about 10 times as light as on Henry James'.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Henry James : The Wings of a Dove

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Marcel Proust :

Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Rimbaud :

Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacques should have been reading Mrs Dalloway, and liking it. I'm awfully vain I know; and I was on pins and needles about sending it to Jacques; and now I feel exquisitely relieved; not flattered: but one does want that side of one to be acceptable'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gwen Raverat Print: Unknown, In proof copy

Walter Raleigh : Letters

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926: 'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of English literature? Walter Raleigh calls Shakespeare "Billy Shaxs" -- Blake, "Bill" -- a good poem "a bit of all right." This shocks me. I've been reading his letters.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

V. Sackville-West : Knole and the Sackvilles

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927: 'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a lot: you have a rich dusky attic of a mind.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Marcel Proust :

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Henry James :

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky :

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read Proust, Henry James, Dostoevsky'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Honore de Balzac :

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've not read it for 15 years.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy :

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've not read it for 15 years.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've not read it for 15 years.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Ronald Firbank :

Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929: 'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new room -- this we have been seeing about for 3 months now, and not a stone is laid. But when the stones are laid you will have to brave the eternal sea mist and south west gale and come here. I should provide you with the works of Ronald Firbank which I am reading with some unstinted pleasure'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Rebecca West : Harriet Hume

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929: 'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree that the convention is tight and affected and occasionally foppish beyond endurance, but then it is a convention and she does it deliberately, and it helps her to manufacture some pretty little China ornaments for the mantelpiece. One could read some of it again'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Somerset Maugham : Cakes and Ale

Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930: 'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a book from the Times, get Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham. All London is ringing with it. For there poor Hugh [Walpole] is most cruelly and maliciously at the same time unmistakably and amusingly caricatured [as Alroy Kear]. He was sitting on his bed with only one sock on when he opened it. There he sat with only one sock on till 11 next morning reading it [...] He almost wept in front of Hilda Matheson, Vita [Sackville-West] and Clive [Bell], in telling us. And he couldn't stop. Whenever we changed the conversation he went back.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Stella Benson :

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all quivering -- saccharine with sentimentality; brittle with the kind of wit that makes sentiment freezing: But I'll try again'.

Unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Princess Daisy of Pless : From My Private Diary

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931: 'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them partly reading Princess Daisy of Pless, speculating upon her real character and life and longing for a full account of them from you -- who appear in a footnote as a distinguished author. What a chance the British aristocracy had and lost -- I mean if they'd only grafted brains on to those splendid bodies and wholesome minds -- for I can't help liking her, in her wild idiocy, and her frankness "7 days late -- can it be a child --" seems to me the highest human quality, if it werent [sic] combined with a housemaids [sic] sensibility and the sentimentality of a Surbiton cook.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

George Eliot : Middlemarch

Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembered: and Ford M. Ford's memoirs [Thus to Revisit] -- fascinating, and even endearing; but I long to know the truth about him'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Ford Madox Ford : Thus to Revisit

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William Shakespeare : As You Like It

Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931: 'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending you a wire to ask what is the truth about Jacques -- What is it? His last speech reads so very odd.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Elizabeth Bowen :

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932: 'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I rather think, as I told you, that her emotions sway in a certain way [...] I'm reading her novel to find out. Whats so interesting is when one uncovers an emotion that the person themselves, I should say herself, doesn't suspect. And its a sort of duty dont you think -- revealing peoples true selves to themselves?'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Axel Munthe : The Story of San Michele

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -- writing -- only the wrong side of the carpet [...] this passion, which has been so well advised, lands me tonight in a book like the reek of stale cabbage and cheap face powder -- a book called The Story of San Michele by [Axel] Munthe [1929] [...] A book more porous with humbug, reeking more suddenly with insincerity, I've never read. I'm at page 50 [...] And I'm reading Stella Benson [Tobit Transplanted (1931)]: with pleasure'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Stella Benson : Tobit Transplanted

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Virginia Woolf : The Waves

'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas 1932. The first words of the book are: "There is a fearful passage in Virginia Woolf's beautiful and mysterious book The Waves, which when I read it, gave me an acute shock of unanticipated reminiscence." He then quotes a long passage in which he found his title: "The apple-tree leaves became fixed in the sky; the moon glared."'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

James Joyce : short story

Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933: 'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- seems to me very good. The others Ive not read.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Quentin Bell : letter

Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933: 'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seemed to me put with masterly brevity; most true.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical

: report of death of Sir George Duckworth

Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934: 'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Well, there's nothing much to be said at this distance, in the wilds of Kerry. Poor old creature -- I wonder what happened and why he was at Freshwater [...] here we are a great deal further and wilder than if in Italy or Greece. We only see Irish papers, now and then; there are no towns, only an occasional small fishing village and as we changed our plans, all our letters have gone wrong. It was mere chance we found a copy of the Times lying about.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

Marcel Proust :

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so magnificent that I cant write myself within its arc'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Edith Wharton : A Backward Glance

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [Ethel's sister], and probably you. Please tell me some time what you thought of her. Theres the shell of a distinguished mind; I like the way she places colour in her sentences, but I vaguely surmise that theres something you hated and loathed in her.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

: The Bible

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bible --? Which by the way, I have bought and am reading. And Renan. And the New Testament; so don't call me heathen in future.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Ernest Renan : St Paul

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

: New Testament

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost complete satisfaction. I'd forgotten how magnificent it is [...] So enthusiastic am I that I've got a new life of him [Dickens]: which makes me dislike him as a human being.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas Wright : Life of Charles Dickens

'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the actress Frances Eleanor Ternan, which lasted many years and contributed to his estrangement from his wife.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette : Sido

'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929), and one of fiction (Duo, 1934), and the two writers sent each other messages through mutual friends.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Prelude

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936: 'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good, so succulent, so suggestive, that I have to hoard it, as a child keeps a crumb of cake? And then people say he's dull!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

George Sand : Memoires (vol 5)

Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want anything so ecstatic, but broad and mellow and satisfactory, try the Memoires of George Sand. 10 little volumes; I'm in the 5th, and find it absorbing'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : unknown

Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936: 'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain rather active in fact: but didn't write -- did nothing but lie in bed and read Macaulay.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Bernard Mandeville : The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938: 'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very good book -- Mandeville's Fable of the bees [1714].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Lady Frederick Cavendish : The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938: 'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight, no originality. All as drab and dowdy as Mabel's Sunday best (Mabel is our maid of all work.) [...] And such damned condescension to artists. Yet all else is fine flowing and thoroughbred - only the mind cluttered with curtains and ferns.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Geoffrey Chaucer : unknown

Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all sense that one differed from another. I am reading Chaucer and hope in a year to have recovered my palate.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Shena, Lady Simon : paper on women and war

Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940: 'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too many to read your paper. I find it useful, suggestive, and sound. I agree with most of your arguments [...] do cast your mind further that way: about sharing life after the war: about pooling men's and women's work: about the possibility, if disarmament comes, of removing men's disabilities. Can one change sex characteristics? How far is the women's movement a remarkable experiment in that transformation? Mustn't our next task be the emancipation of man?'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Winifred Holtby : study on Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a barrel organ writer [...] I'm judging WH only on her journalism [...] and the book on me, which I felt to be a painstaking effort rather to clear up her own muddles than to get the hang of mine. But I didnt want to be written about (not personally) and so never did more than whip through it with one eye shut.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Edmund Burke : unknown

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Andre Gide : unknown

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : unknown

Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940: 'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridge I bought in an old type copy tarnished cover, yellow and soft: and I began, and went on, and skipped the high peaks, and gradually climbed to the top of his pinnacle, by a winding unknown way.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Benedict Nicolson : letter to Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Letter

Vita Sackville-West : Seducers in Ecuador

'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being full of a particular kind of interest which I daresay has something to do with its being the sort of thing I should like to write myself.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Unknown

Walter Scott : Guy Mannering

Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Fyodor Dostoevsky : The Idiot

Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that Scott had; only Scott merely made superb ordinary people, & D. creates wonders, with very subtle brains, & fearful sufferings. Perhaps the likeness to Scott partly consists in the loose, free & easy, style of the translation. I am also reading Michelet, plodding through the dreary middle ages; & Fanny Kemble's Life. Yesterday in the train I read The Rape of the Lock, which seems to me "supreme" -- almost superhuman in its beauty & brilliancy -- you really can't believe such things are written down.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France

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Fanny Kemble : 'Life'

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Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock

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Alexander Pope : Essay on Criticism

Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith. The classics make the time pass much better than the Pall Mall Gazette.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Alexander Pope : Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & reading the Letter to Arbuthnot on Hammersmith Station.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Gilbert Murray : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Leslie Stephen : critical work on Pope

Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Leonard Woolf : The Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions

Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, when I finished it. My opinion is that it is a remarkable book; very bad in parts; first rate in others. A writer's book, I think, because only a writer perhaps can see why the good parts are so very good, & why the bad parts aren't very bad [...] I was made very happy by reading this: I like the poetic side of L. & it gets a little smothered in Blue-books, & organisations.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Unknown

Jules Michelet : Histoire de France

Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

: The Times

Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open Dante or think of him without a shudder -- the cause being I think partly the enormous numbers of newspapers I've been reading in. Lottie [servant] brought me all the Times's which have accumulated [during absence].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

Rosalind Murray : The Leading Note

Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine into R.T. more closely [...] I came home with my book, which does not seem a very masterly performance after Turgenev, I suppose; but if you dont get your touches in the right place the method is apt to be sketchy & empty.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio

Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

unknown : 'book on Children & Sex'

Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for 20 minutes, reading a book on Children & Sex.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Leo Tolstoy : unknown

Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up tobacco, but now argues that Tolstoy's commands were for men of looser life than he, so that he may smoke cigarettes.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Shove Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh

'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'

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George Crabbe : unknown

'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a copy out of my own pocket money before you were weaned. What's more, I have read Peter Grimes I daresay 6 times in 10 years; "But he has no compassion in his grave" - That is where that comes from. There is also a magnificent description of wind among bulrushes which I will show you if you will come here.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Ezra Pound : Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir

10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

: newspapers

24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

John, Viscount Morley : unknown

2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & other books; but reading when done to kill time has a kind of drudgy look in it [...] One day I sat in the garden reading Shakespeare; I remember the ecstacy'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

William Shakespeare : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

William Wordsworth : 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798'

5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred upon an afternoon reading in the garden. I happened to read Wordsworth; the poem which ends "what man has made of man".'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Marcel Proust : Du Cote de chez Swann

18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [...] Occasionally he read a quotation from a book by Proust (whose name I've forgotten), & then from his translation [of the Lysistrata]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry Print: Book

Aristophanes : Lysistrata

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry Manuscript: Unknown

: notice of death of Sarah Emily Duckworth

27 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2 days ago at Lane End [...] She was in her 91st year. A more composed, & outwardly useless life one can't imagine [...] I saw her a few weeks ago, apparently unaware of death, taking her house for 4 years further, & saying precisely what she'd said at any time -- about good & bad novels [goes on to reminisce further about aunt]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

George Otto Trevelyan : The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's sister-in-law] was announced.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas de Quincey : Impassioned Prose

'...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hole in it, and the wind is blowing through me, and I'm reading de Quincey, and Richardson, and again de Quincey- again de Quincey because I'm in the middle of writing about him, and my God Vita, if you happen to know do wire what's the essential difference between prose and poetry - It cracks my poor brain to consider.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

William Michael Rossetti : Memoir of Christina Rossetti

Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, to which he added a "compendious Memoir of her uneventful and rather secluded life."' See Additional Comments.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : 'Bliss'

7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night, with [...] the English review for me, with [...] Katherine Mansfield on Bliss. I threw down Bliss with the exclamation, "She's done for!" Indeed I don't see how much faith in her as as woman or writer can survive that sort of story [...] her mind is a very thin soil, laid an inch or two upon very barren rock [...] she is content with superficial smartness; & the whole conception is poor, cheap, not the vision, however imperfect, of an interesting mind. She writes badly too. And the effect was as I say, to give me an impression of her callousness & hardness as a human being. I shall read it again; but I dont suppose I shall change.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical

unknown : life of Byron

7 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect he had upon women [goes on to comment further upon Byron's life, letters, and poetry]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran

'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand though - That's my only criticism - you've left (I daresay in haste) one or two dangling dim places....'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'.

Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse

'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as important as Jane Austen. She is a genius and I would carry a thousand hair-shedding dogs to the gates of Hell for her did she wish it!"'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole Print: Book

: The Times

'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have heard nothing more; so it may be untrue.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

Leonard Woolf : Empire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic Imperialism

7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, passion & logic of it; indeed its a good thing now & then to read one's husband's work attentively.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Roger Fry : autobiographical essay

6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry Manuscript: Unknown

: Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-Foster

20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but he has the loose, far scattered vitality of the great books, which keeps me going'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Sophocles : Trachiniae

Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- oh dear me!'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : unknown

Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C.] Squire doubts her genius -- so, I'm afraid, do I. These little points, though so cleanly collected, don't amount to much, I think. I read her at the Club last night'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Unknown

Thomas Carlyle : 'reminiscences'

Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if Macaulay sells better. Carlyle (reminiscences) is more colloquial and scrappy than I remembered, but he has his merits. -- more punch in his phrase than in Lytton's.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas Babington Macaulay : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Kenneth Burke : 'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out

Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I have drawn the sting of it by deciding to print it among my puffs, where it will come in beautifully. The Dial is everything honest & vigorous & advanced; so I ought to feel crushed.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical

Henry James : The Wings of a Dove

Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulations become so elaborate towards the end that instead of feeling the artist you merely feel the man who is posing the subject. And then I think he loses the power to feel the crisis. He becomes merely excessively ingenious [goes on to comment further on text].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Katherine Mansfield : stories

Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if she were not so clever she coudn't be so disagreeable.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Unknown

Clive Bell : [journalism]

Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would have to be clipped to march in time with his.'

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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf

Herman Melville : Moby Dick

Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Madame de La Fayette : La Princesse de Cleves

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Walter Scott : Old Mortality

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Lady Gwendolyn Cecil : The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Cecil Torr : Small Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2)

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

unknown : Life of Tennyson

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

unknown : Life of [?Samuel] Johnson

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Nightmare Abbey

Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I remember. Doubtless, Peacock is a taste acquired in maturity. When I was young, reading him in a railway carriage in Greece, sitting opposite Thoby [Woolf, reader's brother], I remember, who pleased me immensely by approving my remark that Meredith had got his women from Peacock [...] And now more than anything I want beautiful prose [...] And I enjoy satire more. I like the scepticism of his mind more [...] And then they're so short; & I read them in little yellowish perfectly appropriate first editions. 'The masterly Scott has me by the hair once more. Old Mortality. I'm in the middle; & have to put up with some dull sermons; but I doubt he can be dull, because everything is so much in keeping [goes on to comment further on text]'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : Crotchet Castle

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Walter Scott : Old Mortality

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Thomas Love Peacock : unknown

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lord Byron's Correspondence

Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last year [...] You cant question Nelly [Woolf's cook] much without rubbing a sore. She threatens at once to send up a cheap meal [...] Not a very grievous itch; & quelled by the sight of the new Byron letters just come from Mudie's [library].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Madame de la Fayette : La Princesse de Cleves

Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterpiece has long been on my conscience. Me to talk of fiction & not to have read this classic! But reading classics is generally hard going. Especially classics like this one, which are classics because of their perfect taste, shapeliness, composire, artistry [...] I think the beauty very great, but hard to appreciate [comments further on text].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

: The New Statesman

Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains in England (metaphorically speaking) sweated themselves for I dont know how many hours to give me this brief condescending sort of amusement [...] Reviews seem to me more & more frivolous.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical

: The Nation

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be able to account for it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret A. Carlyle Print: Book

unknown : [ms novel]

'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest poem, by far the finest of our living poets -" but for all that, we shan't publish him.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Codex

Sophocles : unknown

Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : unknown

Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of Eliot [i.e. The Sacred Wood] whom I've not read; but L[eonard]. has & reviewed & praised into the bargain.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Edmund Gosse : Books on the Table

Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet with Edmund Gosse. How often have I said that I would never read anyone before beginning to write? The book came at breakfast, & I fell. He is one of the respectables [...] But how low in tone it all is -- purred out by the firesides of Dowagers. That is not quite true, seeing that he has some sturdiness, some independence, & some love of letters. The peculiar combination of suavity, gravity, malignity, & common sense always repels me.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Leigh Hunt : The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt

[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs vol 2 page 223, supposing I should want to cook this up again somewhere. L.H. was our spiritual grandfather, a free man [...] These free, vigorous spirits advance the world, & when one lights on them in the strange waste of the past one says Ah you're my sort -- a great compliment.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Julien Benda : unknown

18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'.

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry Print: Book

James Joyce : Ulysses

Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, charmed interested by the first 2 or 3 chapters -- to the end of the Cemetery scene; & then puzzled, bored, irritated, & disillusioned as by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples [...] An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating [...] I may revise this later. I do not compromise my critical sagacity. I plant a stick in the ground to mark page 200.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Gilbert Seldes : Review of James Joyce, Ulysses

Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation, which, for the first time, analyses the meaning, & certainly makes it much more impressive than I judged.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical

James Joyce : Ulysses

Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense [...] I'm reminded all the time of some callow board school boy [...] full of wits & powers, but so self-conscious & egotistical that he loses his head, becomes extravagant, mannered, uproarious, ill at ease, makes kindly people feel sorry for him, & stern ones merely annoyed; & one hopes he'll grow out of it; but as Joyce is 40 this scarcely seems likely. I have not read it carefully; & only once; & it is very obscure; so no doubt I have scamped the virtue of it more than is fair.'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Ben Jonson : Epicoene, or The Silent Woman

Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [Gordon Square].'

Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Wives and Daughters

Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read such a white dimity rice puddingy chapter of Mrs Gaskell in the gale "Wives and Daughters"'.