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Thomas Moore : The Song Of Music
Transcription of poem as 'The Song of Music'. 'Moore'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : 'The Fickleness of Love'
'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : A Reflection at Sea
'A Reflection at Sea'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : Weep Not for Those
'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : Stanzas
'Stanzas'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]'Go, let me weep there's bliss in tears /...'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : Perpetual Adoration
'Perpetual Adoration'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : The Inspiration of Love
'The Inspiartion of Love'. 'Moore'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : The Meeting of the Waters
'The Meeting of the Waters'. 'Moore'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : The Tear
'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text].
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Moore : The Wintery Smile of Sorrow
'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text].
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
John Bowring : The Infinity Of God
'the infinity of god a Russian fragment translated by Mr Bowring' followed by transcript of text '-yes as a drop of water in the sea /..'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Gray : The Progress of Poesy
transcription of the poem headed 'the progress of poesy./ thos. gray'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Campbell : Hohenlinden
transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Campbell : The dirge of wallace
transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Bernard Barton : To Mary
transcript of the poem headed 'to mary'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Bernard Barton : Winter
transcript of the poem headed 'winter / bernard barton'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Bernard Barton : The Joy /addressed to a young friend
transcript of the poem headed 'the joy / addressed to a young friend / by bernard barton'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Campbell : Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale
'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
James Montgomery : Friendship, love and truth
'friendship, love & truth / montgomery'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
James Montgomery : Stanzas, Addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child
'stanzas. addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child. / montgomery'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
James Montgomery : Poet's address to twilight
'poet's address to twilight / montgomery'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
William Wordsworth : Song: she dwelt among th' untrodden ways
'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significant errors when compared to wordsworth's original. The original first line 'she dwelt among the untrodden ways'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Samuel Rogers : The Sailor
'the sailor / rogers'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Samuel Rogers : An Italian Song
'An Italian Song / Rogers' [transcription of poem]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Felicia Dorothea Hemans : Coeur De Lion At The Bier Of His Father
'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom Print: Serial / periodical
anon : Lines On The Death Of A General Officer In The East Indies
'lines on the death of a general officer in the east indies / ladies monthly museum' 'the muffled drums dull moan /... [transcription of poem]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom Print: Serial / periodical
Bernard Barton : 'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Albu
'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Album' 'Bernard Barton' 'The Warrior is[pleased?] when the war is won ....'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
Bernard Barton : Remember Me!
'Remember Me! By Bernard Barton Esq' ' "Remember me!" However brief / Those simple words... [transcribes text]'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
Bernard Barton : Farewell
'Farewell' 'Nay [shy] not from the word "Farewell"! / As if twer friendships knell ...' 'Bernard Barton' [transcribes text]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
Samuel Rogers : The Wish
'A Wish' 'Rogers' [transcribes text] 'Mine be a cot beside a hill...'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
Thomas Campbell : The Last Man
'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon : 'Change'
'Change' 'We say that people ... [transcribes text]'LEL'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
John Wolfe : The Burial of Sir John Moore
Pencil drawing of Sir John Moore by 'J.G.' followed by 'On the death of Sir John Moore' [transcribes text] 'Wolfe'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
John Clare : Early Rising
'Early Rising' 'Just at the early peep of dawn...' [transcribes text] 'Clare'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
Henry Kirke White : On Disapointment
'Ode on Disapointment' 'Come, Disapointment, come! /...' [No author given]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
George Crabbe : The Church
''Affecting picture of Constancy and Love' 'Yes! There are real mourners- I have seen /...' [transcription of 'The Church' from l.170 - 'While visions please her, and while woes destroy']
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
L.E. Landon : Love's Slaves
'Where is the heart that is not bow'd /...' 'L.E.L'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
L.E. Landon : Love's Last Lesson
'Loves Last Lesson' 'Teach me if you can- Forgetfulness!'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Rev. John Moultrie : Forget Thee?
'"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem].
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Felicia Dorothea Hemans : Fairy Favours
'Fairy Favours' [transcript of poem] 'Mrs Hemans'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Bernard Barton : The Heaven was Cloudless
'The Heaven was Cloudless' [transcript of poem, no author given]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Alaric A. Watts : Sketch From Real Life
'Sketch from Real Life / Alaric A. Watts' [transcript of poem]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
William Robert Spencer : To The Lady Anne Hamilton
'Verses / Spencer' 'Too late I staid, forgive the crime; /...' [transcript of poem]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Bernard Barton : Violets. A Sonnet
'Violets. a Sonnet / Bernard Barton' 'Beautiful are you in your lowliness/...[transcript of poem]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Walter Scott :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Charles Dickens :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
William Makepeace Thackeray :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Charles and Mary Lamb :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
George Eliot :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Alfred Tennyson :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Unknown
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Benjamin Disraeli :
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Alfred Tennyson : Locksley Hall
'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Listen now, children" began to declaim "Locksley Hall". When she reached "I to herd with narrow foreheads" she burst out, flinging down the book, "What awful rubbish this is!"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Thomas Print: Book
: Bible (Old Testament), the
'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to read aloud the strange doings of the Patriarchs. No comments were made, religious or otherwise, my questions were fobbed off...and occasionally mother's pencil, with which she guided me to the words, would travel rapidly over several verses, and I heard a muttered "never mind about that".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
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'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some length.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: A Child's History of Rome
'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Dr Brewer : Guide to Science
'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: Rosy's Voyage Around the World
'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: The Little Gypsy
'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland
'"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Lewis Carroll : Through the Looking Glass
'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...buried myself in it all afternoon, my pleasure enhanced by the knowledge that there was a boring vistor downstairs to whom I ought to be making myself agreeable!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Andrew Michael Ramsay : Travels of Cyrus
Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book
Andrew Michael Ramsay : ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus
Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book
Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus
Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book
Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus
Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book
Andrew Michael Ramsay : The Travels of Cyrus
Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stancliff Print: Book
: The Story without an End
'The story itself was an allegory, and was too subtle for us, but it is impossible to describe the endless pleasure given us by those full-page pictures.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
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'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture text-book, given to me on my seventh birthday, and still preserved...some of the little pictures are very crude, but most of them, especially such short commands as "Walk Honestly, "Fear God"...are tasteful enough.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: The Safe Compass
'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me many a joyful hour. It took the gloomiest views as to the fate of the disobedient. But if you left out everything that was in italics, and altered the endings of the plots, the stories were good.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: The Peep of the Day
'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
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'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Richard Arkwright.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: Little Arthur
'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown
[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Hans Christian Andersen : Tales
[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress, The
[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: Good Words for the Young
[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes
: The Dark Journey
'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion. You may wonder why I did this more than once, but I always hoped that I had been mistaken, and that such a splendid title must mean a good story.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical
: Henry Milner
'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but his school-fellows did, and all their gay activities shone like misdeeds in a pious world.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: The Narrow Way
'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
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'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired of reading we could get laughter out of its absurd pictures.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
John Foxe : Book of Martyrs
'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Unknown
Robert Michael Ballantyne : The Iron Horse
'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many more.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers
'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical
: Cassell's Family Magazine
'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical
Jules Verne : Journey to the Centre of the Earth
'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
: The Heir of Redclyffe
'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say I had no notion of any difficulties after the bells had pealed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Unknown
William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair
1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason for knocking down Lord Steyne.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
William Gladstone :
'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understood no single sentence.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Serial / periodical
William Shakespeare :
'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth and beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year- old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
John Dryden :
'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth an beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Oliver Goldsmith :
'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth and beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Joseph Addison :
'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth an beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Richard Steele :
'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth and beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Alexander Pope : 'Ode on Solitude'
'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from their hearts for humanity, and I could follow them fully and with delight, though but a child. They awakened my young nature, and I found for the first time that my pondering heart was akin to that of the whole human race. And when I read the famous essays of Steele and Addison, I could realize much of their truth an beauty of expression... Pope's stanzas, which I read at school as an eight year old child, showed me how far I felt and shared the sentiment that he wrote, when he says, Thus let me live unseen, unknown Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
George Payne : Elements of Mental and Moral Science
'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: "Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Thomas Brown : Moral Philosophy
'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: "Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Richard Whateley : Logic
'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: "Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson :
'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: "Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Thomas Carlyle :
'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: "Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Johann Gottlieb Fichte :
'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller :
'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
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Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Flint: "...in consequence of a handbill that I received I had the prisoners taken into custody..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Flint Print: Handbill
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Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Rose: "I was reading in the newspaper some time after, and saw a person that had been deprived of half-a-guinea and was in custody, and I went to Marlborough-street and saw him there
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Rose Print: Newspaper
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'Mary has been reading to us (I stopped writing to hear it) the account of the death of Mr. Pitt - happy for him that he had died at this time!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
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Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read the bible and the newspaper..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Print: Newspaper
: The Bible
Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read the bible and the newspaper..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary ? Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read the bible and the newspaper. Story books I have read too, but not many novels. Yes, Robinson Crusoe I know..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Print: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read the bible and the newspaper. Story books I have read too, but not many novels. Yes, Robinson Crusoe I know..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Print: Book, story books
Anna Maria Porter : Recluse of Norway, The
Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by Miss Porter - there is a wonderful cleverness in this book, and notwithstanding the badness of the style the 1st vol is very interesting. I began the 2nd last night but could do no more than skim it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book
Christopher Wordsworth : sermons
Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s sermons were just arrived at Brathay, so William walked to B. with Miss A. and borrowed one volume - It is the second. William and Mary have read several of the sermons and are very much delighted with them ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book
Richard Allestree : Ladies Calling, The
'On 2 May 1812 M[ary] W[ordsworth] wrote to her husband from Hindwell: "I have read the 'Ladies calling' - one of thy books - which pleased me much ... "
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book
Willam Blake : [lyrics]
'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book
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Witness statement in trial for shoplifting: Mary Bennett: "I am the prosector's wife. I was in the shop ...I was sitting reading the newspaper, and the first thing I saw was the prisoner"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bennett Print: Newspaper
Caroline Clive : The Great Drought
["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Serial / periodical
Caroline Clive : The Queen's Ball: A Poem
'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by non-exercise it is certainly a faculty that deserts us, & you are too truly a poetess to be lost to literature even through great domestic happiness...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Henri Balzac : La Recherche de L'Absolu
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Henri Balzac : Eugenie Grandet
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Henri Balzac : Modeste Mignon
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Dr Kitto : holy verses
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Duffy : Irish Songs and Ballads
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Mirabeau :
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Lucas Montigny : Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Thomas Babington Macaulay : The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second
'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits. Do I conjure you. It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Elizabeth Harris : From Oxford to Rome
'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of a Dissenting Minister at Wallingford, & that she is still a Roman Catholic, in spite of her book.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
?James Thomson : unknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson
Samuel Daniel : Musophilus, or a Defence of all Learning
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'Mary read a poem of Daniel upon Learning.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene (Canto I)
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Queen.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson Print: Book
Michael Bruce : Lochleven
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'Mary read Bruce.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson Print: Book
Geoffrey Chaucer : Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wordsworth Print: Book
[anon] : Aristotle's Masterpiece
'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's Masterpiece over general giggles: "It contained explicit pictures of the developent of a foetus; in turn we read out passages. This went on until our boss Abe interrupted us. We felt so ashamed and from then on kept even further away from the VD clinic and became very dubious about the male sex'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bertenshaw Print: Book
Julia Kavanagh : Natalie
'"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone Print: Book
Julia Kavanagh : Adele
'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone 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
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 24 July 1848: 'About a month since I received and read "Jane Eyre".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Taylor Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte : Shirley (extracts)
Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, c.29 April 1850: 'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working.'
UnknownCentury: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Taylor
Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began "Shirley" and continued in a curious confusion of mind till now ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Taylor Print: Book
:
'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the room of a Government clerk who was out all day.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Mary Buss
Joseph Butler : The Analogy of Religion
In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's influence that Mary read Butler's "Analogy".
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone 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
Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfield" and then it had to be in secret' (p.7).'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Paley Marshall Print: Book
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
Lyell : Vestiges of Creation
"In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist minister in whose family she worked as companion and help], [Mary Smith] had to sit up through the night whilst the family were asleep."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
Louisa May Alcott : Little Women
'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out"'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book
Louisa May Alcott : Good Wives
'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out"'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book
Susan M. Coolidge : What Katy Did
'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book
Lucy Maud Montgomery : Anne of Avonlea
'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book
Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer
'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book
Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn
'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book
James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans
'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman Print: Book
Walter Scott :
Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading Scott when aged seven.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Evans Print: Book
Mary Finlay Cross : story
Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her future sister-in-law Mary Findlay Cross that 'I read your touching story aloud yesterday ...'"
UnknownCentury: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Evans
Pierre Bayle : Pensees diverses vol 1
"Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotated. On the flyleaf she write a general impression, beginning [...] "I ask pardon for scribling in Y[ou]r La[dyshi]ps Book. The Author is so disingenuous & inconsistent yt no lover of Truth can read it without a just Indignation.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Astell Print: Book
Michel de Montaigne :
"Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Print: Book
John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture
'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chapters only fit to be in German.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mary Yonge Print: Book
: plays
'Mary Delaney frequently discussed her reading of plays.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Delany Print: Unknown
Charlotte Smith : Letters of a Solitary Wanderer
'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection of interlocking tales in which a number of suffering women relate their stories. It is the single occasion her comprehensive reading diary mentions this book, which she seems to choose at this point to express a resentful, self-pitying protest against her desertion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Letters on Education
'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's Letters on Education, Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the Baroness de Montoliere's novel "Caroline de Litchfield". The first she pronounced "wonderfully clever", and it may well have proved helpful to her as a teacher; the last she described as "One of the prettiest things I have ever read", and it perhaps suggested that her own life could serve as the basis of a sentimental novel'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Louis Sebastien Mercier : Mon Bonnet de Nuit
'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the Baroness de Montoliere's novel "Caroline de Litchfield". The first she pronounced "wonderfully clever", and it may well have proved helpful to her as a teacher; the last she described as "One of the prettiest things I have ever read", and it perhaps suggested that her own life could serve as the basis of a sentimental novel'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Baroness de Montoliere : Caroline de Litchfield
'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the Baroness de Montoliere's novel "Caroline de Litchfield". The first she pronounced "wonderfully clever", and it may well have proved helpful to her as a teacher; the last she described as "One of the prettiest things I have ever read", and it perhaps suggested that her own life could serve as the basis of a sentimental novel'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
William Cowper :
'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed in the volume of Cowper's poems and another of sermons by her friend John Hewlett which Johnson sent her. She told Everina at one point that she was reading "some philosophical lectures, and metaphysical sermons - for my own private improvement". These works could well have included the writings of Dr Price. The only writer in this field whom she singled out for comment, however, was the orthodox William Paley, whose "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy" she commended to Eliza for its definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
John Hewlett : [sermons]
'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed in the volume of Cowper's poems and another of sermons by her friend John Hewlett which Johnson sent her. She told Everina at one point that she was reading "some philosophical lectures, and metaphysical sermons - for my own private improvement". These works could well have included the writings of Dr Price. The only writer in this field whom she singled out for comment, however, was the orthodox William Paley, whose "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy" she commended to Eliza for its definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
William Paley : Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed in the volume of Cowper's poems and another of sermons by her friend John Hewlett which Johnson sent her. She told Everina at one point that she was reading "some philosophical lectures, and metaphysical sermons - for my own private improvement". These works could well have included the writings of Dr Price. The only writer in this field whom she singled out for comment, however, was the orthodox William Paley, whose "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy" she commended to Eliza for its definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Hugh Blair : Letters on Rhetoric
[Mary Wollstonecraft] 'told Everina that she had been reading Hugh Blair's "Letters on Rhetoric" and found them "an intellectual feast".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her; it was a treatise on education, a metaphysical essay - at times almost a sermon - and a sentimental novel, all in one'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
[various] : [various works]
[compiling the anthology "The Female Reader", Mary Wollstonecraft spent] 'long hours reading, for the extracts included came from widely scattered sources and might consist of only a few lines from a long work.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Unknown
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however he rambles into a chimerical world into which I have too often [wand]ered - and draws the usual conclusion that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Richard Price : Sermons on the Christian Doctrine, as Received by the Different Denominations of Christians
'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the Dissertations are less entangled with controversial points, and contain useful truths - coming warm from the heart they find the direct road to it; but the sermons require more profound thinking, are not calculated to improve the generality'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Richard Price : Four Dissertations
'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the Dissertations are less entangled with controversial points, and contain useful truths - coming warm from the heart they find the direct road to it; but the sermons require more profound thinking, are not calculated to improve the generality.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Jacques Necker : De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses
'M. Necker, the late Minister...has written a book entitled "De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses", it pleases me and I want to know the character of the man in domestic life and public estimation &c.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
[probably] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann : [probably] Moralisches Elementarbuch
'I am so fatigued with poring over a German book, I scarcely can collect my thoughts or even spell English words.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with benevolent satisfaction - yet, I cannot help viewing them, I mean the first pair - as if they were my inferiors - inferiors because they could find happiness in a world like this.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Mr Barlow : [letters to his wife]
'Delighted with some of her husband's letters, [Mrs Barlow] has exultingly shewn them to me; and, though I took care not to let her see it, I was almost disgusted with the tender passages which afforded her so much satisfaction, because they were turned so prettily that they looked more like the cold ingenuity of the head than the warm overflowings of the heart.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Manuscript: Letter
Mary Hays : Cursory Remarks
'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinating &c, all of the feminine gender, than I expected. Some of the sentiments, it is true, are rather obscurely expressed; but if you continue to write you will imperceptibly correct this fault...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Manuscript: Unknown, MS version of pamphlet
Jane West : A Gossip's Story
'I have sent you the "Gossip Story" to review, as you wish to read it, but I would thank you if you would do it immediately, because Johnson is in want of materials for the present month. The great merit of this work is, in my opinion, the display of the small causes which destroy matrimonial felicity and peace.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Anne Radcliffe : Italian, The
' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Addington : [Letters]
' I send you Addington's Letters. I find the melancholy ones the most interesting - There is a grossness in the raptures from which I turn...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'Mary Cooke - quite as much pleased with it, as her Father & Mother; seemed to enter into Lady B.'s character, & enjoyed Mr Rushworth's folly. Admired Fanny in general, but thought she ought to have been more determined on overcoming her own feelings, when she saw Edmund's attachment to Miss Crawford.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Cooke Print: Book
Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White
'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he said, "a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books: yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith Print: Book
William Wordsworth : The excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a poem
'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Wordsworth : The Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a poem
'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown
Robert Southey : Madoc: a poem
'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown
Robert Southey : Madoc: a poem
'M Read Madoc all morning.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown
Robert Southey : The Curse of Kehama
'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown
Samuel Johnson : Rasselas
'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown
Veit Weber : Die Teufelsbeschworung / The Sorcerer
'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown
William Godwin : An enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on general virtue and happiness
'Mary reads Political Justice all the morning'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
: Psalms and chapters
Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every morning; but, as neither explanation nor comment was made upon them, nor their history followed up in any way, I hated the duty and escaped it when I could.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Addison and Steele (ed.) : The Spectator
Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every morning; but, as neither explanation nor comment was made upon them, nor their history followed up in any way, I hated the duty and escaped it when I could. The same consequence took place by the same dear parent making me read every Sunday to her a Saturday paper in the "Spectator," which, till the middle of life, prevented my ever looking at those exquisite essays, or being aware of the beauties of the volumes they were in.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Serial / periodical
Madame Roland : (passages from) Reverie du Bois de Vincennes
Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces passages from posthumously-published writings of the 23-year-old Madame Roland, transcribed by Mary Berry when aged 22, 'as parallel to her own reflections [which also written in French]'.
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
Isocrates : oration
Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as you could possibly desire? The parson who I mentioned in my last, stayed till yesterday. He is a very good scholar, and much in the habit of teaching. He corrected a piece of Isocrates which I had done by myself, and then read on with me in the same oration, and whilst he was here I translated above two pages more, writing them down, I mean, and all the verbs and their parts in the opposite page'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
August von Kotzebue : Lovers' Vows
Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers' Vows;" it is the entire and literal translation of the play which is now acting with such success at Covent Garden, but [italics]not[end italics] as it is acted; you can get it at Todd's [bookseller's], where I did, to read in the chaise. I think it quite charming, and it affected me much [...] You must allow for German manners and for the (at all times) sad disguise of a translation.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Robert Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population
Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers' Vows;" it is the entire and literal translation of the play which is now acting with such success at Covent Garden, but [italics]not[end italics] as it is acted; you can get it at Todd's [bookseller's], where I did, to read in the chaise [...] Another book which I purchased at Todd's and read in my chaise was the "Essay on Population" which Mr. Wrangham left with you. It is uncommonly clearly thought and written, and contains much curious and uncontrovertible reasoning on the subject in question.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Wraxhall : work on period of Henry III (second volume)
Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and better the farther I go. I have consulted, too, one of his authorities for many things in the age of Henry the Third, Montaigne's Essays, a very curious and an [italics]astonishing[end italics] book, considering the times in which it was written, and which one never consults without entertainment. I have re-read, too, Condorcet's book, and compared his ideas and arguments on the subject of population with those of the Essay [by Malthus] we have been reading, and certainly the Essay has not only the best of the argument [...] but is absolute [italics]conviction[end italics]on the subject of the different ratios in which population, and the means of subsisting that population, increase'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Wraxhall : work on period of Henry III (second volume)
Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and better the farther I go. I have consulted, too, one of his authorities for many things in the age of Henry the Third, Montaigne's Essays, a very curious and an [italics]astonishing[end italics] book, considering the times in which it was written, and which one never consults without entertainment. I have re-read, too, Condorcet's book, and compared his ideas and arguments on the subject of population with those of the Essay [by Malthus] we have been reading, and certainly the Essay has not only the best of the argument [...] but is absolute [italics]conviction[end italics]on the subject of the different ratios in which population, and the means of subsisting that population, increase'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Michel de Montaigne : Essays
Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and better the farther I go. I have consulted, too, one of his authorities for many things in the age of Henry the Third, Montaigne's Essays, a very curious and an [italics]astonishing[end italics] book, considering the times in which it was written, and which one never consults without entertainment. I have re-read, too, Condorcet's book, and compared his ideas and arguments on the subject of population with those of the Essay [by Malthus] we have been reading, and certainly the Essay has not only the best of the argument [...] but is absolute [italics]conviction[end italics]on the subject of the different ratios in which population, and the means of subsisting that population, increase'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Condorcet : [book including discussion on population]
Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and better the farther I go. I have consulted, too, one of his authorities for many things in the age of Henry the Third, Montaigne's Essays, a very curious and an [italics]astonishing[end italics] book, considering the times in which it was written, and which one never consults without entertainment. I have re-read, too, Condorcet's book, and compared his ideas and arguments on the subject of population with those of the Essay [by Malthus] we have been reading, and certainly the Essay has not only the best of the argument [...] but is absolute [italics]conviction[end italics]on the subject of the different ratios in which population, and the means of subsisting that population, increase'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Luigi Tansillo : "The Nurse"
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 11 December 1798: '[William] Roscoe has just sent us a poem of his translation from an Italian poet whose very name was unknown to my shadowy Italian erudition. It is called "The Nurse," from "La Babia" of Luigi Tansillo. I have read it over, tho' not yet with sufficient attention; but I am disappointed in it, because I expect nothing but what is excellent from his pen. The subject, which is reprobating hired nurses and exhorting all women to suckle their own children, does not do in English verse, tho' the [italics]Ariosto-like[end italics] familiarity and simplicity of the original, makes it pretty in the inimitable beauty of the Italian language [...] The poem is published, beautifully printed, with the Italian on the opposite page; it is not long, and you can no doubt get it at York.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
John Milton : Paradise Lost
Mary Berry, in reflections on reading (1798): 'When I read "Paradise Lost," I am no more able to conceive the powers of imagination and genius exerted by Milton in the composition of that poem, than I am able to conceive the intellect of Sir Isaac Newton in the demonstration of the phenomena of the universe. Both seem to me beings more exalted above myself in the scale of intellectual perfection, than I am above the brute creation.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Somerville : History of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen Anne; with a Dissertation concerning the Danger of the Protestant Succession
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 12 January 1799: 'Somerville's "Anne" is, I think, more dry than his "William," but clear, distinct, impartial, and wonderfully informing; his chapters on the Union of Scotland are particularly so [goes on to note aspects of Scottish situation during Queen Anne's reign, including rebellious elements ('of none of which circumstances I had before any just idea') and to compare this with current situation in Ireland]'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Colonel Mathew : letter
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will have found in them much abuse, little eloquence, and very little argument [...] I myself was shown a letter by Mathew (Col. Mathew), which, from its handwriting, and the office manner in which it was drawn up, I am sure must have come from a clerk of the Parliament'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
: Cease your Funning
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will have found in them much abuse, little eloquence, and very little argument [...] The famous Irish pamphlet in favor of the Union, called, "Cease your Funning", which after much trouble I got to read, disappointed me; it is sharp and well-kept-up irony from beginning to end, on a pamphlet on the other side, by the Ld Lieut.'s secretary; but it is not very entertaining, and not at all instructive.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
Wilberforce : ?Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am reading with much attention Mr. Wilberforce's book, and likewise strictures on it, in a series of letters by Mr. Belsham'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Belsham : A Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am reading with much attention Mr. Wilberforce's book, and likewise strictures on it, in a series of letters by Mr. Belsham'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown
William Sotheby : "The Battle of the Nile"
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 19 February 1799: 'Mr. Sotheby sent me his "Battle of the Nile." [...] There seems to be a number of good lines in the poem, but the conduct of it is not to me clear'.
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
Hannah More : Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though by very little bits at a time, to go entirely through Hannah More [whose "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education" she writes of receiving on 21 March 1799], and Mrs. Woolstonecroft [sic] immediately after her.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : unknown
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though by very little bits at a time, to go entirely through Hannah More [whose "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education" she writes of receiving on 21 March 1799], and Mrs. Woolstonecroft [sic] immediately after her.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Charles James Fox : letter to Uvedale Price on series of plays
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 17 May 1799: 'I was much entertained by some letters which [Uvedale] Price showed me from Sr George Beaumont, Fox, and Knight, containing criticisms on the series of plays which he (Price) had set them all reading. They were excellent, the ideas of three very superior understandings and tastes'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
Homer : The Iliad
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, Thursday 23 May 1799: 'I began Homer's Iliad on Wednesday last, to my no small delight, and felt no particular difficulty in the comprehension of the first doz. lines'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Madame de Sevigne : Letters
Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 5 October 1799: 'Mentioning [...] [Madame de Coigny] puts me in mind of a book which I am now [italics]devouring[end italics] with delight, though no new one, and I am now reading it for the third time. I mean Madme de Sevigne's Letters.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Bartholomew Mercier : Le Nouveau Paris
Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his former "Tableau de Paris". This last, in six vols. is one of the most stupid, unclearly thought, ridiculous books I ever saw, and yet I read it, not without entertainment and instruction'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Bartholomew Mercier : Tableau de Paris
Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his former "Tableau de Paris". This last, in six vols. is one of the most stupid, unclearly thought, ridiculous books I ever saw, and yet I read it, not without entertainment and instruction'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mackintosh : [unidentified "accounts of hs proposed lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations"]
Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his former "Tableau de Paris". This last, in six vols. is one of the most stupid, unclearly thought, ridiculous books I ever saw, and yet I read it, not without entertainment and instruction [...] Of a very different nature is a little book I have lately read over again for the third or fourth time, -- I mean, Mackintosh's accounts of his proposed lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations. Such a compendious syllabus of all the leading principles of truth and virtue I never met with! I mentioned it to you last year, I think, when I first got it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
William Godwin : St Leon
Mary Berry, in letter of 2 January 1800: 'I have been reading [...] a new novel of Godwin's, in four vols., called "The Travels of St. Leon." it is an odd work, like all his, and, like all his, interesting, tho' hardly ever pleasantly so; and while one's head often agrees with his observations, and sometimes with his reasoning, never does one's heart thoroughly agree with his sentiments on any subject or in any character [...] I should tell you, which I know from Edwards, that it was written for bread, agreed for by the booksellers beforehand, and actually composed and written as the printers wanted it. I think you will see many marks of this throughout the work if you read it, which I should recommend to you, if, like me, you have not seen a [italics]readable[end italics] novel this age.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
unknown : [Greek]
'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Matthew Gregory Lewis : The Monk: a romance
'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Anacreon : [odes]
'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Edward du Bois : St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Count Reginald St. Leon
'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria
'Read the wrongs of woman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the rights of woman
'Read Posthumous works.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Zastrozzi
'Read Zastrozzi'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Wiiliam Godwin : St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century
'Finish St Leon.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Wiiliam Godwin : Things as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Williams
'Read Caleb Williams.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Germaine De Stael : Delphine (three volumes)
Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly three volumes of Madame de Stael's Delphine [...] It is certainly interesting [...] It is well written, too'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Madame De Sevigne : Letters
Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Madame de Sevigne. They always improve on me, and are [italics]here[end italics] particularly interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Catherine Fanshawe : "Ode, by Mary Berry."
Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces 1805 letter from Mary Berry (writing as Catherine Fanshawe) to Catherine Fanshawe, in response to poem written by Fanshawe as Berry, and lent to her in manuscript; having praised the piece and offered some specific criticisms, she closes with an injunction that Fanshawe 'show it sparingly to the few who may be worthy, and on no account distribute any copies without [her] [...] licence and authority'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Francesco Baldovini : 'Lamento di Cecco'
Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807: 'Read a little of the "Lamento di Cecco," which, having often heard of, I had never seen before. It is a beautiful, simple, but not vulgar pastoral, in the Tuscan patois; but after the first three or four stanzas, not very difficult to understand. If it were, there are notes, which swell a poem of forty stanzas into a tolerable-sized quarto volume!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mr Greathead : Journals
Mary Berry, Journal, 23 August 1807: 'I remained in my room the whole morning reading Mr. Greathead [her host]'s Journals, which let me more into their every-day life, where they went, and what they did while abroad, than a month's conversation could do.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
: The Scotch Review
Mary Berry, Journal, 29 August 1807: 'In the evening read a good deal of the last Scotch Review [...] What they say of Mr. Hope [author of "Household Furniture and Internal Decorations executed from Designs"], though he lays himself open to ridicule, is ill-natured and often in bad taste. An excellent criticism upon Cobbett's weekly journal, exposing, in the clearest manner, his shameful inconsistencies [...] and holding up upon true Whig principles our real defects and real misconduct [...] only wishing them to be considered as they are, and not confounded with preposterous exaggeration in the minds of the people. But alas! the people read Cobbett, and will never read the Scotch Review.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Serial / periodical
Lister : Life of Clarendon
Mary Berry, Journal, 30 October 1807: 'In the evening began reading the "Life of Clarendon".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Lister : Life of Clarendon
Mary Berry, Journal, 11 November 1807: 'In the evening I read aloud "Clarendon's Life".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Lister : Life of Clarendon
Mary Berry, Journal, 16 November 1807: 'Read "Clarendon's Life" aloud in the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Madame du Deffand : Letters
Mary Berry, Journal, 19 November 1807: 'After dinner read aloud some of Madame du Deffand's letters.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
Madame Neckar : Remains
Mary Berry, Journal, 23 November 1807: 'In Madame Neckar's ridiculous Remains, published by her husband, are some of the very best rules and advice for the manners and conduct of a woman no longer young in society. I will read them again. They always strike me as most justly conceived.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Roscoe : [unidentified pamphlet]
Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
William Spence : England Independent of Commerce
Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown
Walter Scott : Marmion
Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1808: 'I went in the evening to Mrs. D[?amer]. Read "Marmion," just come out, to her.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Walter Scott : Marmion
Mary Berry, Journal, 10 March 1808: 'Read some more of "Marmion".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Homer : The Odyssey
Mary Berry, Journal, 14 March 1808: 'Began reading the "Odyssey" of Homer in Pope's translation. Delighted with it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Caroline Matilda Warren : Conrade, or the Gamesters
Mary Berry, Journal, 20 April 1808: 'At night finished Miss Warren's novel ["Conrade, or the Gamesters" by galloping over half the pages; human patience could not regularly wade through a series of adventures without "ensemble", of violent situations without interest or probability, and of characters equally pious or equally profligate.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Ashe : Travels in America
Mary Berry, Journal, 21 April 1808: 'In the evening began reading Ashe's "Travels in America", in the north-western settlements, behind the United States.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Ashe : Travels in America
Mary Berry, Journal, 22 April 1808: 'In the evening Ashe's Travels [in America] again. They are, I think, very entertaining in spite of an abominable style, which aims at being [italics]fine writing[end italics], without being grammar and without being English. But the wonderful country he describes makes every account of it which one sees and feels is written on the spot, very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Ashe : Travels in America
Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the letters of Mme du Deffand], and finished the evening with Ashe's Travels, which are very entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mary Berry : Draft preface to edition of letters of Mme du Deffand
Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the letters of Mme du Deffand], and finished the evening with Ashe's Travels, which are very entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Thomas Ashe : Travels in America
Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1808: 'In the evening Mrs. D[?amer], and [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Ashe : Travels in America
Mary Berry, Journal, 1 May 1808: 'In the evening, [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America] as usual.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
William Gell : The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca
Mary Berry, Journal, 10 May 1808: 'I began reading aloud Gell's "Ithaca".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
William Gell : The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca
Mary Berry, Journal, 11 May 1808: 'In the evening, Gell's "Ithaca".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
: The Times
Mary Berry, Journal, 17 May 1808: 'Read in the "Times" the confirmation of the wreck and positive loss of Lord Royston."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper
Charles James Fox : Historical Work
Mary Berry, Journal, 2 June 1808: 'I began reading aloud Mr. Fox's historical work, in the beautiful large-paper copy which Robert Ferguson has given me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Charles James Fox : Historical Work
Mary Berry, Journal, 3 June 1808: 'I continued reading Fox's work. It is very well to read it once out; but it suggests so much thought, and so many new views of things, that I shall read it over more than once to myself in a very different manner to what I am now doing.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Moore : 'Corruption'
Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner. I praised highly the two poems ("Corruption" and "Intolerance") that I had been reading in the morning, before the author (little Moore), without knowing it. After dinner he owned the fact, and was much pleased with my unsuspicious praise.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Moore : 'Intolerance'
Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner. I praised highly the two poems ("Corruption" and "Intolerance") that I had been reading in the morning, before the author (little Moore), without knowing it. After dinner he owned the fact, and was much pleased with my unsuspicious praise.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Moore : 'Intolerance'
Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Thomas Moore : 'Corruption'
Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Barillon : Letters
Mary Berry, Journal, 30 June 1808: 'In the evening I read "Barillon's Letters" in Mr. Fox's Appendix.'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mrs Warburton : Letters to the Duchess of Argyll
Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to her grandmother, the Duchess of Argyll, from [italics]her[end italics] mother, Mrs Warburton, and to Lady Greenwich from the Duchess of Queensberry and several other persons. Remarkable form and expressions of respect in the letters of Mrs Warburton to her duchess daughter.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
Duchess of Queensbury : Letters to Lady Greenwich
Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to her grandmother, the Duchess of Argyll, from [italics]her[end italics] mother, Mrs Warburton, and to Lady Greenwich from the Duchess of Queensberry and several other persons. Remarkable form and expressions of respect in the letters of Mrs Warburton to her duchess daughter.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
: Letters to Lady Greenwich
Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to her grandmother, the Duchess of Argyll, from [italics]her[end italics] mother, Mrs Warburton, and to Lady Greenwich from the Duchess of Queensberry and several other persons. Remarkable form and expressions of respect in the letters of Mrs Warburton to her duchess daughter.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
Captain Adam : Letter to father
Mary Berry, Journal, 10 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Lord and Lady Rosslyn arrived at four o'clock [...] Lord Rosslyn gave me a letter to read from Captain Adam to his father, praising the conduct of Ronald at Vimeira in the most satisfactory manner. I went away to read it, which I did not do without tears.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
Mary Berry : Draft preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand
Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas my sketch of a preface for the Letters [of Madame du Deffand], with which she seemed well pleased. Finished reading "The Tale of the Times," a novel, which, like most other novels, begins better than it finishes.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
unknown : The Tale of the Times
Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas my sketch of a preface for the Letters [of Madame du Deffand], with which she seemed well pleased. Finished reading "The Tale of the Times," a novel, which, like most other novels, begins better than it finishes.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
unknown : [C14th-C15th manuscripts]
Mary Berry, Journal, 21 February 1809: 'This morning I went to the [Middle] Temple to Mr. Lysons', to see some very ancient MSS. of the time of Henry IV., Edward IV., and Richard III., &c. &c., of which he is the depositary, as "Keeper of the Records in the Tower."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Berry : "Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life"
Mary Berry, Journal, 28 April 1809: 'In the morning I saw Joanna [Baillie]. She stayed nearly an hour with me. I read to her my "Notice upon Madame du D----'s Life," with which she was so pleased that I could not but feel very much flattered.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Berry : "Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life"
Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours. I read to him my preface and my "Notice on the Life [of Madame du Deffand], &c., &c.," with which he was well pleased, saying it was impossible to give a more faithful picture of the person whom he had known during the latter years of his life in great intimacy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Berry : Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand
Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours. I read to him my preface and my "Notice on the Life [of Madame du Deffand], &c., &c.," with which he was well pleased, saying it was impossible to give a more faithful picture of the person whom he had known during the latter years of his life in great intimacy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Joanna Baillie : The Family Legend (acts 1, 2, 3, 5)
Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpole and Lady Louisa Stuart, and Sir W. Pepys and F. Cholmley. Somebody was to read Joanna Baillie's tragedy, "The Family Legend;" this somebody was obliged to be me, as nobody else knew her hand, or had ever seen the play. I read the first three acts, Cholmley the fourth, and I again the fifth. It had a vast effect upon Walter Scott, and one that was very pleasing, from the evident feeling of one poet from another.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Joel Barlow : The Columbiad
Mary Berry, Journal, August 1809: 'I have been reading a strange poem -- the "Columbiad" of Poet [Joel] Barlow. Who or what he is I know not, except that he is an American, deeply imbued with all the bad taste and all the prejudices which belong to his nation, in its present state of society [makes various negative criticisms] [...] Yet I have been amused at this first American attempt at an epic, with all its faults, all its vulgarisms [...] and all its false reasoning. It is full of ideas, embraces an endless variety of subjects [...] Sets one a thinking, sometimes justly, but oftener to detect and wonder at its commonplace mistakes, and the conceit with which so many false and romantic doctrines are brought forward and dwelt upon [goes on to reflect further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
unknown : account of military campaign in Spain
Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1809: 'In the evening read aloud the account of General Moore's campaign in Spain [makes various enthusiastic exclamations on this].'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
anon : Review of Mary Berry, ed., Letters of Madame du Deffand
Mary Berry, Journal, 16 March 1811: 'I had heard from Lord Stafford, at Lady Spencer's the night before, that the "Scotch Review," with the criticism upon "Madame du Deffand's Letters [edited by Berry]," was out; and this morning before I got my own, Lady Donegall sent me a copy she had got early. I ought to be much content, and I am [...] Blame, or notice of faults, there is none'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Serial / periodical
Joanna Baillie : Hope
Mary Berry, Journal, 19 May 1811, on stay with Joanna Baillie at Hampstead: 'Sat by the fire the whole day. Joanna Baillie gave us her drama upon Hope to read; it is only two acts, and I was soon through it. Very poetical, and much fancy, as all her things have; but this did not equal my expectation [...] It is certainly a dramatic story, but not dramatically managed.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
William Godwin : Things as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams
'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire : Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself
'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire : Zadigi ou la destinee
'Read Zadig.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Victor Alfieri : Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself
'Read the life of Alfieri.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Victor Alfieri : Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself
'Finish the life of Alfieri'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793
'Read Louvets memoires'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
unknown : unknown
'Read aloud to Jane.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown
unknown : unknown
'Read all evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown
unknown : unknown
'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown
unknown : unknown
'Read I don't know what.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Unknown
Alexander Pope : Epistle to Mr Gay
'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was simultaneously complemented and embarrassed by Pope's tribute in "Epistle to Mr Gay". She sent a copy of the verses to her sister in Paris, but she explained she had "stiffle'd" them in England... Lady Mary characteristically felt the impropriety as much as the flattery of Pope's admiration'.
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wortley Montagu
Alexander Pope : [poetry]
'Mary Lepel Hervey, although Pope's friend before her marriage,disparaged the poet in her mature correspondence. Attributing his polished style to Lord Bolingbroke's influence, she declared in 1748 that Pope "would certainly never have wrote so elegantly, but that, as he bragged,
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lepel Hervey Print: Unknown
Alexander Pope : Letters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons
'[Mary] Jones particularly admired Pope's letters. In August 1735, not long after the publication of "Letters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons", she wrote Martha Lovelace that "I've at last had the inexpressible Pleasure of reading Mr Pope's Letters; and am so well satisfied with 'em, that I shall read all future Letters (Except Miss Lovelace's) with a great deal less Pleasure for their sake. In his other Productions I have always admir'd the Author, but now I love the Man".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Jones Print: Book
Erasmus Darwin : The Botanic Garden (first thirty lines)
Mary Berry to Horace Walpole [1789]: 'A thousand thanks for the "Botanic Garden." the first thirty lines, which I have just read, are delicious, and make me quite anxious to go on'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown
Virgil : Works
Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of the fourth century, which they call the oldest existing; it is very fairly written, but less easy to read than the one in the Vatican. We saw, too, the Horace that belonged to Petrarch, with some notes in it by his own hand. It is in large quarto, and not a beautiful manuscript from the number of notes and scoliastes interrupting and confusing the text.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Horace : Works
Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of the fourth century, which they call the oldest existing; it is very fairly written, but less easy to read than the one in the Vatican. We saw, too, the Horace that belonged to Petrarch, with some notes in it by his own hand. It is in large quarto, and not a beautiful manuscript from the number of notes and scoliastes interrupting and confusing the text.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Francesco Petrarch : annotations to manuscript copy of works of Horace
Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of the fourth century, which they call the oldest existing; it is very fairly written, but less easy to read than the one in the Vatican. We saw, too, the Horace that belonged to Petrarch, with some notes in it by his own hand. It is in large quarto, and not a beautiful manuscript from the number of notes and scoliastes interrupting and confusing the text.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
: The Times
Mary Berry to Horace Walpole, 28 September 1794, regarding remark in the newspapers that the move of the Prince of Wales to Hampton Court would ensure continued social diversion in the area even after death of the elderly Walpole: 'I did not suppose that the Prince of Wales was likely to become your [italics]successor[end italics] in anything, till the newpapers told us so. The enclosed paragraph, which we cut out of the "Times" the other day, amused us all not a little.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper
[probably] James Murphy : [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90
Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Murphy's "Portugal," and which you will like to possess: -- '"From whose splendid virtues, the great men, who delight to sport in the atoms which float in the beams of light issuing from the beauty of the leaf of the sleepy Ketahee of the diadem of the goddess Saraskatee, went to adorn the females of the eight points."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Lucy Hutchinson : Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson
Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [...] I am more delighted with Mrs. Hutchinson [i.e. Lucy Hutchinson's "Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson"] than with any book I have read for an age. She was a really superior woman, both as to head and heart. Her description and account of her husband's attachment to her is the truest, the most elevated and admirable picture of love and true affection from and to a superior mind that can be imagined.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mary Berry : The Two Martius
Mary Berry, Journal, 15 June 1812: 'Called by appointment on Sir G. Beaumont to meet [George] Colman [manager of Haymarket Theatre], and read with him 'The Two Martius.' As Sir George had told him that it was written by a woman, I owned myself to be that woman [...] I read the piece: he stopped me each time where he thought something piquant could be added'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Lord Cathcart : account of Battle of Borodino
Mary Berry, Journal, 9 October 1812: 'Read the newspapers, which contained the extraordinary letter of Lord Cathcart announcing the great defeat of the French, and their nineteenth bulletin dated Moscow!!!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read all evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]
'Read in the greek grammar'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read and work in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Read in the morning and work'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]
'Read in the Greek grammar'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]
'Read a little in the Greek grammar'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
William Godwin : St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century
'Read a part of St Leon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Work and read in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Petronius : Satyricon
'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793
'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793
'Read Louvet's memoirs all day'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793
'Finish Louvet's memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Write and read'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]
'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring our own feelings throw upon the liveliest delineations of other minds'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Mary, A Fiction
'We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Robert Southey : Curse of Kehama, The
'Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Rasselas
'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
James Henry Lawrence : Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women, The
'read Political Justice & the empire of the Nairs'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas Jefferson Hogg : Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff
'read Alexy Haimatoff - study a little greek - read Political Justice'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria
'We walk out - when we return Shelley talks with Jane and I read Wrongs of woman'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Godwin : Essay on Sepulchres
'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire (pseud.) : [shorter tales]
'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Princess of Wales : Letter to the Speaker [?Parliamentary]
Mary Berry, Journal, 5 July 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me to read a letter that she had sent to the Speaker [re proposed increase to her allowance].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
?Walter ?Scott : Life of Jonathan Swift
Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1814: 'I read "Swift's Life" in the new edition of his works by Walter Scott. It does not appear to me that there is much that is new.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
: Gazette
Mary Berry, Journal, 22 June 1815: 'All the details that one hears of the victory of the 18th [June, at Waterloo] show that it was one of the most sanguinary battles that ever took place [...] I went to Lord Palmerston's, where I saw the "Gazette," and examined the large map of the country with Fanny Temple [Palmerston's sister].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown
: Newspapers
Mary Berry, Journal, 26 July 1815: 'I only went out for a short time to read the papers, in which is Captain Maitland's letter, announcing the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte upon his vessel at Torbay.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Newspaper
Magalotti : Travels of Cosmo III in England
Mary Berry, Journal, 27 March 1818: 'I went with the Comte Bardi to the Laurentian Library. Saw the travels (MSS.) of Cosmo III. in England in the year 167-, accompanied by Magalotti, who gives the description of the travels, and by an artist who made drawings of all the small towns where they stopped, and of all the country houses they saw. I remarked Wilton, Billingbear, Audley Inn, &c.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Berry : Memoir of Lady Russell
Mary Berry, Journal, 12 December 1818: 'I worked all the morning; before dinner I read in my own room to Lady Hardwicke, Lady Charlotte Lindsay, and my sister, what I had written of Lady Russell's Memoir, with which they expressed themselves much pleased.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Berry : Memoir of Lady Russell
Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and commenting on my "Memoir of Lady Russell," spoke frankly, seemed pleased, and satisfied me very tolerably with his opinion [...] In the evening he read some of Milton's "Paradise Regained" to us.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
Martial : unknown
Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have been excessively amused in reading Martial, Livy, Suetonius, &c. &c. with him on the spot where they were written, and comparing the descriptions with the actual state of the scenes described.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Livy : unknown
Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have been excessively amused in reading Martial, Livy, Suetonius, &c. &c. with him on the spot where they were written, and comparing the descriptions with the actual state of the scenes described.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Suetonius : unknown
Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have been excessively amused in reading Martial, Livy, Suetonius, &c. &c. with him on the spot where they were written, and comparing the descriptions with the actual state of the scenes described.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
?Anastatius : work on travels in East
Mary Berry, in letter of August 1820: 'I have been reading after dinner, when it is too hot to write, "Anastatius." It is, as I had supposed, the substance of the MS. travels in the East which he long ago gave me to read. But in this new form so arranged! in such a pert style -- such an evident copy of Lord Byron's prose'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Oswald : Letters to ministers and 'distinguished persons', 1742-67
Mary Berry, Journal, October 23 1821: 'Went on a visit to Sir John and Lady Oswald. Sir John had given me a collection of his grandfather's letters to Ministers and several distinguished persons of his day, since the years 1742 and 1767 [...] The reading of these letters, which make two large MS. books, occupied me very agreeably all the morning.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
Hon Mrs C. Scott : MS
Mary Berry, Journal, 28 August 1823: 'Loitered in the garden with Car. [Hon. Mrs Scott, novelist], and read the MS. which she gave me.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Unknown
unknown : MS letters
Mary Berry, Journal, 23 September 1824, from Edinburgh: 'Went with Mr. and Mrs. Davenport to [...] the Advocate's Library and Stamp Office, where Mr. Thompson, the Deputy Registrar, showed us very curious MS. letters.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Manuscript: Letter
Mary Wollstonecraft : Elements of Morality, for the use of children
'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Smellie : The Philosophy of Natural History
'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Lazare N.M. Carnot : Memoir adresse au Roi en juillet 1814
'I read Carnot's memorial - he is a common place man'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
unknown : [greek grammar]
'read in the greek grammar'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Petronius : Satyricon
'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai : M?moires de Louvet de Couvrai
'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mrs Somerville : [work on astronomy]
Mary Berry to 'Mrs Somerville', from Bellevue, September 1834: 'I have just finished reading your book [apparently on astronomy], which has [italics]entertained[end italics] me extremely, and at the same time, I hope, improved my moral character in the Christian virtue of humility [...] Humbled I must be, by finding my own intellect unequal to following, beyond a first step, the explanations by which you seek to make easy to comprehension the marvellous phenomena of the universe'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Victor Jaquemont : Letters describing a journey in India
Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books "Victor Jaquemont's Letters?" they are perfectly original [...] I never knew before half so much of the life of our countrymen in India; and the author himself is so natural and unaffected a character, that I had well-night cried at his death, as if it had not been true.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
unknown : Notice on life of M. Gouthier
Mary Berry to 'a friend at Paris,' October, 1835: 'I have read with much attention the "notice" on the life of M. Gouthier that you lent me at Paris, and on which you asked my opinion. 'It is impossible to imagine a more perfect character as a Christian priest'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Unknown
: The Bible
Mary Berry , Journal, 18 September 1836: 'I have been unequal this day to anything but reading my Bible for amusement; for I cannot say that I am capable of any reasonings on it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Princess Dashkoff : Life and Writings
Mary Berry on the Life and writings (including memoirs) of the Princess Dashkoff, published 1840: 'The whole work -- of which I saw only the first part, which comes down to 1783, when she returned to Russia after her tour through Italy -- is the picture, not only of a human mind and character placed in most extraordinary circumstances, and acting a most extraordinary part, but endowed by nature with those extraordinary powers, and that energy, which I have ever thought [...] always accompanied by [...] warm, pure, and ardent affections of the heart.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mazzini : unknown
Mary Berry to a friend, [1841]: 'I have read every word of Mazzini, and agree entirely with him in his views of what civil liberty ought to be, and with most of his statements on the absence of it in Italy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Anne Grant : Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807
Mary Berry to Joanna Baillie, 24 October 1844: 'I have been reading "Mrs. Grant's Letters" with considerable amusement. She often writes very well, and [italics]thinks[end italics] well, within her horizon; but her horizon is a narrow one, and her mistakes of character often laughable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mr Everett : Inaugural discourse given at Harvard College
Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces letter from Mary Berry to 'Mr. Everett' of Harvard College, of 25 August 1846, in which she praises, and discusses in detail, the 'inaugural discourse at Harvard College' (on educational issues) of which he had sent her a copy within the past year.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry
Thomas Babington Macaulay : The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [italics]very[end italics] most entertaining reading I ever met with ... The first edition of 3,000 copies was sold in the first week; another, of 3,000 more, is to come out on Thursday next.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Stewarton : Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The
'Rise very late. Read in the "female revolutionary Plutarch"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The
'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The
'Read the Italian & talk all day'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Charles Brockden Brown : Philip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of Love
'read Philip Stanley - very stupid'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Joanna Baillie : [plays]
'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Christopher Martin Wirland : Geschichte des Agathon
'read Agathon part of which I like but it [is] not so good as Peregrine'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Christopher Martin Wirland : Geschichte des Agathon
'finish Agathon - I do not like it. Wieland displays some most detestable opinions - he is one of those men who alter all their opinions when they are about 40 and then thinking that it will be the same with every one think themselves the only proper monitors of youth'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Drummond : Academical Questions
'Read Drummond'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas Pennant : Outlines of the Globe (Vol I. The View of Hindostan)
'read Pennants view of Hindostan'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Lord Macartney : Journal of an Embassy to China
'read Embassy to China. finish it in the evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mungo Park : Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797
'Read and finish Mungo Parks travels - they are very interesting & if the man was not so prejudiced they would be a thousand times more so. but those Institutions must always have Christians'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
John Milton : Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib
'in the evening
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Joanna Baillie : Plays on the Passions
'Miss Berry [...] told me [Harriet Martineau] how she found on her table, on her return from a ball, a volume of plays [Joanna Baillie's "Plays on the Passions"]; and how she kneeled on a chair to look at it, and how she read on till the servant opened the shutters, and let in the daylight of a winter morning.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament, and that with active attention, as she frequently made any thing which had struck her in reading it, the subject of remark when she came down'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Book
Hannah More : Memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and o
'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved...'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Book
[n/a] : The Rambler
'We might mention the Rambler, theGuardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved....
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : The Guardian
'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved....'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical
unknown : [spiritual books]
She read saints' lives and was 'as it were enflamed with a desire of imitating them'. Her needlework was always accompanied by the 'reading of some spiritual book' (presumably by a servant, or possibly friend or family member). She carefully scrutinised her children's reading and did not allow them to read anything 'contradictory to faith, or destructive to modesty'.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Print: Book
Frances Burney : Evelina
'Soon after, the old mamma hobbled to me,? and began a furious panegyric upon my Book,? saying at the same Time "I wonder, miss, how you could get at them low characters! ? as to the Lords and Ladies that?s no wonder at all, ? why as to t?other, ?why I have not stirred night nor morning while I?ve been reading it,? if I don?t wonder how you could be so clever! ? ... . . . you?ve writ the best and prettiest book? that Lord there, I forget his Name, that marries her at last, what a fine Gentleman he is! You deserve everything for Drawing such a Character, ? & then Miss Elena there? Miss Belmont as she is at last, ?what a Noble Couple of ?em you have put together! As to the t?other Lord, I was glad he had not her, for I see he had nothing but a bad design."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lawes Print: Book
Madame du Noyer : Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon
'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very extraordinary, but I know not whether she has not added a few [italics] agremens [italics] of invention to them: however, there is some truth. I have been told, in particular, that the history of the fair unfortunate Madame de Barbesierre is so, by people who could not be suspected of romancing. Don't you think that the court of England would furnish stories as entertaining? Say nothing of my malice; but I cannot help wishing that Madame de Noyer would turn her thoughts a little that way. I fancy she would succeed better than the authoress of the "New Atalantis". I am sure I like her method much better, which has, I think, hit that difficult path between the gay and the severe, and is neither too loose, nor affected by pride.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Delarivier Manley : Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean
'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very extraordinary, but I know not whether she has not added a few [italics] agremens [italics] of invention to them: however, there is some truth. I have been told, in particular, that the history of the fair unfortunate Madame de Barbesierre is so, by people who could not be suspected of romancing. Don't you think that the court of England would furnish stories as entertaining? Say nothing of my malice; but I cannot help wishing that Madame de Noyer would turn her thoughts a little that way. I fancy she would succeed better than the authoress of the "New Atalantis". I am sure I like her method much better, which has, I think, hit that difficult path between the gay and the severe, and is neither too loose, nor affected by pride.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Print: Book
unknown : unknown
'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
unknown : [dictionaries]
'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will better direct you. My study at present is nothing but dictionaries and grammars...I find the study so diverting, I am not only easy, but pleased with the solitude that indulges it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Virgil : Aeneid
'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian court], and I do not know but it might make as good a figure as the prize-shooting in the Eneid, if I could write as well as Virgil.'
UnknownCentury: Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau : odes
'I made acquaintance yesterday with the famous poet Rousseau, who lives here [Vienna] under the peculiar protection of Prince Eugene, by whose liberality he subsists. He passes here for a free-thinker, and, what is still worse in my esteem, for a man whose heart does not feel the encomiums he gives to virtue and honour in his poems. I like his odes mightily, they are much superior to the lyrick productions of our English poets, few of whom have made any figure in that kind of poetry.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
unknown : [history]
'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part of my travels. It was not an affectation of shewing my reading, that has made me tell you some little scraps of the history of the towns I have passed through.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown
'Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is) in calling the sect [italics] muterin [italics].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Theocritus :
'I no longer look upon Theocritus as a romantic writer; he has only given a plain image of the way of life amongst the peasants of his country; who, before oppression had reduced them to want, were, I suppose, all employed as the better sort of them are now. I don't doubt, had he been born a Briton, his [italics] Idylliums [italics] had been filled with descriptions of threshing and churning, both which are unknown here, the corn being all trod out by oxen; and butter (I speak it with sorrow) unheard of.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Homer : Iliad
'I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not before entirely comprehend the beauty of...It would be too tedious to you to point out all the passages that relate to present customs.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
: Bible
'I should have told you, in the first place, that the Eastern manners give us a great light into many Scripture passages, that appear odd to us, their phrases being commonly what we should call Scripture language.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Ibrahim Pasha : Turkish Verses
'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact Scripture style. I believe you would be pleased to see a genuine example of this; and I am very glad I have it in my power to satisfy our curiosity, by sending you a faithful copy of the verses that Ibrahim Pasha, the reigning favourite, had made for the young princess, his contracted wife...Thus the verses may be looked upon as a sample of their finest poetry...I have taken abundance of pains to get these verses in a literal translation'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Manuscript: Sheet
: Song of Songs (Old Testament)
'It is most wonderfully resembling [italics] The Song of Solomon [italics], which was also addressed to a royal bride.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
John Lodge Cowley : ?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid]
"amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pasteboard Paper & cut so that you may lift them up & see the solid forms &c &c I suppose a profound scholar might despise all this - but I think it a pretty work for Ladys or young beginners."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hamilton Print: Book
unknown : unknown
'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges - Tuesday, reading English - Wednesday, studying the Turkish language (in which, by the way, I am already very learned - Thursday, classical authors.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Jean Dumont : A New Voyage to the Levant
'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ignorance and confidentiality. 'Tis a particular pleasure to me here, to read the voyages to the Levant, which are generally so far removed from truth, and so full of absurdities, I am very well diverted with them. They never fail giving you an account of the women, whom 'tis certain they never saw, and talking very wisely of the genius of the men, into whose company they are never admitted; and very often describe mosques, which they dare not peep into.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Homer : Odyssey
'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the traveller Ulysses, who was an observer of men and manners, when he travels in your harmonious numbers.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Homer : Iliad
'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Homer had chosen a hero somewhat less pettish and less fantastic: a perfect hero is chimerical and unnatural, and consequently uninstructive; but it is also true that while the epic hero ought to be drawn with the infirmities that are the lot of humanity, he ought never to be represented as extremely absurd.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
unknown : Arabian Tales
'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! - You forget, dear sister, those very tales were written by an author of this country and (excepting the enchantments) are a real representation of the manners here.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
unknown : unknown
'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain of the Smyrniote to deliver it to you with this letter. The translation of it is as literally as follows: The first piece you should pull out of the purse is a little pearl, which is in Turkish called [italics] Ingi [italics]...You see this letter is all verses, and I can assure you there is as much fancy shewn in the choice of them, as in the most studied expressions of our letters; there being, I believe, a million of verses designed for this use.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Manuscript: Letter
Richard Knolles : The Turkish History
'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown
'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Mr Hill : unknown
'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what you find in authors; as, for example, in the admirable Mr. Hill, who so gravely asserts, that he saw in Sancta Sophia a sweating pillar, very balsamic for disordered heads...'Tis also very pleasant to observe how tenderly he and all his brethren voyage-writers lament the miserable confinement of the Turkish ladies, who are perhaps freer than any ladies in the universe.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Theocritus : Idyll 18
'Tis true they have no public places but the bagnios...I was three days ago at one of the finest in the town, and had the opportunity of seeing a Turksih bride recieved there, and all the ceremonies used on that occasion, which made me recollect the epithalamium of Helen, by Theocritus.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown
'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which account I am apt to believe was designed to compliment our court in 1679).'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Sir Paul Rycaut : unknown
'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the viziers, the [italics] beglerbeys [italics], the civil and spiritual government, the officers of the seraglio, &c., things that 'tis very easy to procure lists of, and therefore may be depended on; though other stories, God knows - I say no more - every body is at liberty to write their own remarks; the manners of people may change, or some of them escape the observation of travellers, but 'tis not the same of the government; and for that reason, since I can tell you nothing new, I will tell nothing of it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Gemelli : unknown
'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than any other voyage-writer): he says that there are no remains of Calcedon; this is certainly a mistake.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
: Qu'ran
'I begin with telling you, that you have a true notion of the Alcoran, concerning which, the Greek priests (who are the greatest scoundrels in the universe) have invented out of their own heads a thousand ridiculous stories, in order to decry the law of Mahomet.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Mr Sandys : Unknown
'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking of these ruins, supposes them to have been the foundation of a city begun by Constantine, before his building Byzantium.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Strabo : Geographica
'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Book
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Emilia Galotti
'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Joanna Baillie : [Plays]
'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Joanna Baillie : Ethwald
'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the view of the French Revolution for a short time'. [text as far as Ethwald in PBS' hand, thereafter MG]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution
'Read view of the French Revolution'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Joanna Baillie : [Plays]
'In the afternoon read Miss Bailie's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Joanna Baillie : De Montfort
'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution
'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Robert Southey : The Remains of Henry Kirke White. With an account of his life
'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
'Read Bryan Edwards's account of the West Indies'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St aubin, Marquise de Silley, Comtesse de Genlis : Les Veilles du Chateau
'read Tales of the castle'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Bryan Edwards : he history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
'read Bryan Edwards all evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Robert Southey : Roderick; the last of the Goths
'look over Roderick - very unwell'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'In the evening S[helley] C[lary] and H[ogg] sleep - read Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield : Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself
'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the finest of Lord B's poems. S. reads Lara aloud in the evening. [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Emperor Julian in private life he would have appeared a very ordinary man The fables of Aesop in Greek. - Boethius consolation of philosophy - how in the reign of Theodoric [underlined] a Christian? [end underlining] gr - Lord Bacon's works - Gibbon likes Boethius - [end italics] Mary reads Gibbon (100).' [italic text is by PBS, non-italic by MG]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael : Corinne, ou d'Italie
'read Corinne (42)'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael : Corinne, ou d'Italie
'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Isaac D' Israeli : Despotism; or the fall of the Jesuits
'find my baby dead- Send for Hogg - talk - a miserable day - in the evening read fall of the Jesuits'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Isaac D'Israeli : Despotism; or, the Fall of the Jesuits
'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Christian August Vulpius : Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Rauberhauptmann
'Finish Renaldini - talk with Shelley- in very bad spirits but get better'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Christian August Vulpius : Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Rauberhauptmann
'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Bernard le Bouyer de Fontinelle : Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes
'Read and talk - still think about my little baby - 'tis hard indeed for a mother to loose a child - Hogg and C.[harles] C.[lairmont] come in the evening - CC goes at 11. Hogg stays all night - read Fontinelle Plurality of Worlds'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[n/a] : [newspapers]
'Talk and read the papers'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Newspaper
Robert Bage : Hermsprong: Or Man as he is not. A novel. By the Author of Man as he is
'After dinner read Hermsprong'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Alain Rene Lesage : Le Diable boiteux
'read le diable boiteux [...] in the evening read le diable boiteux and play at chess'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - S finishes Livy (p920 vol 3.) & 1/2 past 12 at night'.[end italics] [& a mistake for at??]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Robert Bage : Man as He Is. A Novel
'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Walter Scott : Rokeby; a poem
'go to the British Museum - see all the fine things - ores, fossils, statues, divine &c &c. - return - read Rokeby - go upstairs to talk with S. - read and finish Rokeby'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain
'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain
'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbon (vol 12 - 364) and the story of Myrrha in Ovid'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain
'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses (3rd fable)
'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end italics]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses (4th and 5th fables)
'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Shakespeare : As You Like It
'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain
'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain
'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads Voltaire p. 126.'[end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'read over the Ovid to Jefferson'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Walter Scott : The Lord of the Isles: a poem
'read 3 Canto's of the Lord of the Isles'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Wordsworth : [Poems]
'After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain
'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations (203)'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Queene?]
'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Queene?]
'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Quene?]
'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Quene?]
'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : [The Faerie Queene?]
'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Norway, Sweden and Denmark
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given separate database entries from this source] 'Mary. Those marked x. S. has read also xLetters from Norway x Mary, A Fiction. x Wordsworth's Excursion. x. Madoc. by Southey. 2 vol x Curse of Kehama. x Sorcerer. a novel. x Political Justice. 2 x The Monk - by Lewis - 4 x Thaliba 2 x The Empire of the Nairs 4 x Queen Mab x St Godwin x Wrongs of Women 2 x Caleb Williams 3 x Zadig x Life of Alfieri, by himself 2 x Essay on Sepulchres x Louvet's Memoirs Carnot's Memorial x Lives of the Revolutionists by Adolphus 2 x Edgar Huntley. x Peregrine Proteus. x The Italian. x Prince Alexy Haimatoff. Philip Stanley. by Brown x Miss Bailly's plays x Moores Journal x Agathon x Mungo Park's Travels in Africa. 1st part x Barrow's Embassy to China Milton's letter to Mr Hartlib Emilia Galotti. x Bryan Edwards hist. of the W. Indies x View of the French Revolution by M.W.G. x Candide x Kirke White. 62 volumes'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Robert Southey : Don Roderick
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Die Lieden des jungen Werthers
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Denis Chavis : Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments . . . Newly translated from the original Arabic into French by Dom Chaves and M. Cazotte
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Godwin : The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Charles James, Lord Holland Fox : A history of the early part of the reign of James the Second
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
James Leigh Hunt (ed.) : The Reflector
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
Charles Brockden Brown : Wieland; or, the transformation
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Godwin : Fleetwood; or, the New Man of Feeling
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller : Don Carlos
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Robert Paltock : The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de Reveries du promeneur solitaire
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James IIThe Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Robert Southey : Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Gottfried August Burger : Lenore
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile; ou de l'education
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
John Milton : Paradise Lost
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
[anon.] : Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael : De l'Allemagne
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Augustine, l'abbe Barruel : Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinism
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
William Beckford : Vathek
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
August von Kotzebue : Das merkwurdigste Jahr meines Lebens
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Walter Scott : Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
: newspaper
'I was glad to hear Mr. Remond's history from you, though the newspapers had given it to me [italics] en gros [italics].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Print: Newspaper
William Robertson : History of America
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Virgil : unknown
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Jonathan Swift : Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
John Milton : Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire (pseud.) : Le Bible enfin explique
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Joseph Berington : The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa . . . from 1079 to 1163. With their genuine letters, from the collection of Amboise
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
: New Testament
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Poems
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d' Holbach : Systeme de la nature ou des loix du monde physique et du monde moral
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
James Thomson : Castle of Indolence, The
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Thomas Chatterton : Poems
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
John Milton : Lycidas
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Edmund Burke : A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Alexander Pope : The Iliad of Homer
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Sallust :
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, The
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Epictetus : unknown
'Here is the work of one week of my solitude - by the many faults in it your Lordship will easily believe I spend no more time upon it; it was hardly finished when I was obliged to begin my journey, and I had not leisure to write it over again. You have it here without any corrections, with all its blots and errors: as I endeavoured at no beauty of style, but to keep as literally as I could to the sense of the author. My only intention in presenting it, is to ask your lordship whether I have understood Epictetus?'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Francoise de Graffigny : Lettres d'une Peruvienne
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Richard Walter : Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, by George Anson Esq . . . Compiled from papers . . . of . . . Lord Anson . . . by Richard Walter (and Benjamin Robins)
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Charles Brockden Brown : Ormond; or, The Secret Witness
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Thomas Holcroft : Adventures of Hugh Trevor, The
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Eugene Labaume : Relation circonstanciee de la campagne de Russie
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Matthew Lewis : Tales of Terror
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho, The
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Voltaire (pseud.) : Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Alexander Pope : unknown
'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name of Sappho, because there is nothing I ever heard in our characters or circumstances to make a parallel, but as the town (except you, who know better) generally suppose Pope means me, whenever he mentions that name, which appears to be irritated by supposing her writer of the verses to the Imitator of Horace.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Henry William Weber (ed.) : Tales of the East: Comprising the most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin and the Best Imitations by European Authors
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
: [the works listed above]
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Carl Philipp Moritz : Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Pierre Jean Baptiste Legrand d' Aussy : Fabliaux ou contes du XII et du XIII si?cle
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Basil Montagu (ed.) : The Opinions of different authors upon the punishment of Death, selected by Basil Montagu
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas, First Baron Erskine : [Collection of Speeches, perhaps Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, When at the Bar, on Subjects Connected with the Liberty of the Press, and Against Constructive Treason]
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Godwin : Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Johann Friedrich von Schiller : Der Geisterseher
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Elizabeth, Lady Craven : A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Nicholas Rowe : The Fair Penitent: A tragedy
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire (pseud.) : [possibly] Romans et contes
'Shelley goes alone to the Glacier of Boison - I stay at home - read several tales of Voltaire'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mme de Genlis : Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques
'We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Voltaire (pseud.) : [possibly] Romans et contes
'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [letters]
'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation
'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation
'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame du Deffand : [life included in] Correspondence in?dite de Mme du Deffand
'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Virgil : [unknown]
'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
August H.J. Lafontaine : Carl Engelmann's Tagebuch
'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation
'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation
'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales) : Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, traduite de l'arabe par l'auteur de la Philosophie de la nature
'I translate in the evening and read le vieux de la Montagne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales) : Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, traduite de l'arabe par l'auteur de la Philosophie de la nature
'read le vieux de la montagne and write'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales) : Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, traduite de l'arabe par l'auteur de la Philosophie de la nature
'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347
'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347
'read Walther and some of Rienzi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
August H.J. Lafontaine : Walther oder das Kind vom Schlachtfeld
'read Walther and some of Rienzi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
August H.J. Lafontaine : Walther oder das Kind vom Schlachtfeld
'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : [possibly one of] Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques
'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [a novel]
'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Les Voeux t?m?raires; ou l'enthousiasme
'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Antoine de Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347
'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert : Hermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten der Vehmgerichte
'read Hermann d'Unna'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert : Hermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten der Vehmgerichte
'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347
'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques
'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques
'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Francois Marmontel : Contes moraux
'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Francois Marmontel : Contes Moreaux
'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Antoine du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347
'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Elizabeth jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu : Caroline de Lichtfield
'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others Coleridges Christabel which Shelley reads aloud to me before we go to bed'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu : Caroline de Lichtfield
'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Francois Marmontel : Contes moraux
'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Charles R. Maturin : Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand, a tragedy
'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 'Christabel'
'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[n/a] : Quarterly Review, The
'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
[unknown] : Le Criminel Secret
'[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le crimenel secret" which is a very curious and striking book'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Unknown
Mary Robinson : Vancenza; or the Dangers of Credulity
'read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Walter Scott : Antiquary, The
'read the first vol. of the antiquary and work'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Walter Scott : Antiquary, The
'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[n/a] : Edinburgh Review
'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
Henry Carey : Chrononhotonthologos; the most tragical tragedy that ever was tragedized etc.
'read Chrononhotonthologus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Henry Hart Milman : Fazio: a tragedy
'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Herbert Croft : Love and Madness. A story too true. In a series of letters between parties, whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less known, or less lamented
'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Antoine Du Cerceau : Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347
'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Walter Scott : Antiquary, The
'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : Letters of a Solitary Wanderer
'in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Margrave de Barieth : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main
'Write and read the memoirs of the princess of Bareith'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Margrave de Barieth : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main
'Read the Memoirs aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'In the evening read the letters of Emile'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady
'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady
'read Vol VI of Clarissa'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady
'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book, Serial / periodical, could have been original periodicals or later collected volumes
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Margrave de Bareith : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main
'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Margrave de Barieth : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main
'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft
'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft
'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Caroline Lamb (anon.) : Glenarvon
'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Caroline Lamb (anon.) : Glenarvon
'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Magrave de Bareith : M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main
'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : Patronage
'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Charles R. Maturin : The Milesian Chief
'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : Patronage
'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Charles Maturin : Milesian Chief, The
'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Travels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland and the Netherlands, to Paris
'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Alphonsine; ou la tendresse maternelle
'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Sydney Owenson : O'Donnel: a national tale
'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Humphrey Davy : Elements of Chemical Philosophy
'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage before night.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Richard Walter : A Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, by George Anson Esq . . . Compiled from papers . . . of . . . Lord Anson . . .
'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage before night.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
E. Ysbrants Ides : Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides
'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
E. Ysbrants Ides : Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides
'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Humphrey Davy : Elements of Chemical Philosophy
'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Francois Marmontel : Les Incas
'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Francois Marmontel : Les Incas
'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel
'Draw and read Bryan Perdue'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel
'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : History of Sir Charles Grandison, The
'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : History of Sir Charles Grandison, The
'read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth (anon.) : Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale
'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : History of Sir Charles Grandison, The
'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding
'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[unknown] : [old voyages]
'write - read old voyages.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding
'Finish 1st book of Locke - read Curt - & work - Shelley reads Locke, Plutarch, & Paradise Lost aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded
'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded
'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding
'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Francois Marmontel : Les Incas
'work in the evening - & read Les Incas'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]
'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Horace : [odes]
'read two odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
John Locke : An Essay concerning Humane Understanding
'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Horace : [odes]
'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[n/a] : Edinburgh Review
'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
John Locke : Essay concerning Humane Understanding
'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Lucian : [unknown]
'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Horace : Odes
'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent
'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Horace : Odes
'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent
'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Lucian : [unknown]
'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'read rights of women'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Cicero : [Opuscula - Minor Works]
'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope
'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope
'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Cicero : De Senectute
'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Fanny Burney : Wanderer, The
'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Fanny Burney : Wanderer, The
'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Cicero : de Senectute
'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope
'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield : Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope
'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon
'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Bred et de Montesquieu : Lettres persanes
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Henry Hart Milman : Fazio
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
James Leigh Hunt : Story of Rimini
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Lord Chesterfield : Letters to his Son
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too] 'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters. xColeridges Lay Sermon Memoirs of Count Gramont Somnium Scipionis Roderick Random Comus Knights of the Swan Cumberlands memoirs de se Junius' letters Journey to the World Underground D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney Round Table by W. Hazlitt Cupids Revenge Martial Maid Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher] x Tales of my Landlord Rambler Waverley Amadis de Gaul Epistolae Plinii Secundi x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius Anna St Ives Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius x Defoe on the Plague x Wilsons City of the Plague Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Quarterly Review x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore x Davis' travels in America x Godwin's Mecellanies x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Manuscrit venu de St Helene Buffon's theorie du terre Beaumont and Fletchers Plays x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist. Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy La Nouvelle Heloise Lettres Persiennes Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond Arthur Mervyn x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry. Miseries of human life x Moores odes & epistles Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau x Lamb's Specimens Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde x Mandeville x Laon and Cynthia x Lady Morgan's "France". The three brothers First vol of Humes Essays Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon
'finish the lay sermon'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Home : Douglas: A Tragedy
'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
James Shirley : Gamester, The
'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Spectator
'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Anthony Hamilton : M?moires de la vie du Comte de Grammont
'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon . . . written by himself
'read Life of Clarendon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : De Republica
'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Adventures of Roderick Random
'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Adventures of Roderick Random
'finish Roderick Random'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Milton : Comus
'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Les Chevaliers du cygne; ou la cour de Charlemagne
'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Oliver Goldsmith : Citizen of the World, The
'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Richard Cumberland : Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself.
'Read Cumberlands memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Richard Cumberland : Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself.
'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Rambler, The
'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Junius [pseud.] : Letters of Junius
'Read Junius - Rain all day - work'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Junius [pseud.] : Letters of Junius
'work and read Junius read Amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Robert Southey : Amadis of Gaul
'work and read Junius read Amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Robert Southey : Amadis of Gaul
'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : De Republica
'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : De Republica
'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Robert Southey : Amadis of Gaul
'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Philip Sidney : The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
'Read the arcadia and Amadis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ludwig Holberg : Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum
'Read journey to the World Underground'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers : The Restoration; or Right will take place
'Read the Restoration'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers : Rehearsal, The
'Read the Rehearsal'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Philip Sidney : Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, THe
'read the Arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Examiner, The
'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Ludwig Holberg : Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum
'read the arcadia & the world underground'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality)
'Read Tales of my Landlord'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality)
'Finish Tales of my Landlord'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : Salmasis and Hermaphroditus
'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Philip Sidney : Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, The
'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Fletcher : Cupid's Revenge
'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid
'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : Wild-goose Chase, The
'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Hazlitt : Round Table, The: A Collection of Essays
'Read the Round Table'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Pliny : [Letters]
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Milton : Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The
'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Pliny : [Letters]
'Read Pliny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Enquiry Concerning... Political Justice, An
'Read Political Justice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Pliny : [Letters]
'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Apuleius : Metamorphoses; or, the Golden Ass
'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives: a novel
'Read Anna St Ives'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives: a novel
'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Suetonius : [unknown]
'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the last Great Visitation in 1665
'Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the last Great Visitation in 1665
'Finish Defoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Wilson : City of the Plague, and other poems
'read and fin. City of the Plague'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : Comic dramas, in three acts
'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Frances Holcroft : Fortitude and Frailty: a novel
'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to me? One evening after returning from Diodati. It was in our little room at Chapuis - the lake was before us and the mighty Jura. That time is past and this will also pass when I may weep to read this words and again moralize on the flight of time. Dear Lake! I shall ever love thee. How a powerful mind can sanctify past scenes and recollections - His is a powerful mind. one that fills me with melancholy yet mixed with pleasure as is always the case when intellectual energy is displayed. I think of our excursions on the lake. how we saw him when he came down to us or welcomed our arrival with a goodhumoured smile - How very vividly does each verse of his poem recall some scene of this kind to my memory - This time will soon also be a recollection - We may see him again & again - enjoy his society but the time will also arrive when that which is now an anticipation will be only in the memory - death will at length come and in the last moment all will be a dream. Am I not very melancholy? Godwin is out and I shall finish the canto although I fear it will not raise my spirits.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Frances Holcroft : Fortitude and Frailty: a novel'
'Finish F[anny] H.[olcroft]'s novel - read Suetonius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Read the Quarterly Review'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh: an Oriental Romance
'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tacitus : Annales
'Read Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tacitus : Annales
'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
J. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux : Manuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnue
'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Davis : Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America
'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Cursory Strictures on the charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre; A Reply to an answer to Cursory Strictures
'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon
'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere
'Read Buffon in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere
'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason]
'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown
[n/a] : Arabian Nights, The
'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise
'Read Tacitus and Julie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise
'Read Julie - S reads Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu : Lettres persanes
'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tacitus : Annales
'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere
'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : Harrington, a tale, and Ormond, a tale
'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles Brockden Brown : Arthur Mervyn
'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : [Plays, with Fletcher]
'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : [Plays]
'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tacitus : Annales
'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : [Plays, with Fletcher]
'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Sejanus his Fall
'Read the fall of Sejanus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[anon.] : Rhoda
'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jane Porter : Pastor's Fireside, The
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lady Morgan : The Missionary: An Indian Tale
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lady Morgan : Wild Irish Girl, The
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
M.G. Lewis : Anaconda, The
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Percy : Northern Antiquities; or a description of the manners, customs, reliogion and laws of the ancient Danes
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Catiline his Conspiracy
'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alicia Lefanu : Strathallan
'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Henry Fielding : Amelia
'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The
'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Intercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-Bag
'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century
'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Davis : Travels in America
'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
James Beresford : Miseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy
'Read and finish miseries of human life'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Graffigny : Lettres d'une Peruvienne
'Read Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Apuleius : Cupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass]
'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Apuleius : Golden Ass, The
'Translate Apuleius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : [Letters]
'Read Rousseau's letters.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : [Letters]
'Finish Rousseau's letters'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : [probably] Inferno
'Read Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles Lamb : Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes
'Read Lambs specimens.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles Lamb : Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes
'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : [probably] Inferno
'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Address to the people on the death of the Princess Charlotte
'read Shelley's pamphlet.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Moliere (pseud.) : George Dandin; ou le mari confondu
'read George Dandin'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Zapolya: a Christmas tale in two parts
''read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Souza : Eug?nie et Mathilde, ou les m?moires de la famille du Comte de Revel
'Read Mathilde et Eugenie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles R. Maturin : Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio
'read Family of Montorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles R. Maturin : Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio
'Finish the Family of Montorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
August H. J. Lafontaine : Das Testament
read Tacitus and le Testament'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
David Hume : Essays and Treatises on Several subjects
'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Benjamin Thompson [trans.] : German Theatre
'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Benjamin Thompson (trans.) : German Theatre
'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
David Hume : Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England
'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England
'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Love Peacock : Rhododaphne; or, the Thessalian Spell
'Transcribe Peacocks poem'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown
David Hume : Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : The Night Walker, [or, the little Thiefe]
'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : [unknown]
'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lady Morgan : France
'Read "France"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Georgics
'Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tacitus : Annales
'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Joshua Pickersgill : Three Brothers, The
'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Joshua Pickersgill : Three Brothers, The
'Finish the three brothers'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : ['Miscellanies']
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too] 'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters. xColeridges Lay Sermon Memoirs of Count Gramont Somnium Scipionis Roderick Random Comus Knights of the Swan Cumberlands memoirs de se Junius' letters Journey to the World Underground D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney Round Table by W. Hazlitt Cupids Revenge Martial Maid Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher] x Tales of my Landlord Rambler Waverley Amadis de Gaul Epistolae Plinii Secundi x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius Anna St Ives Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius x Defoe on the Plague x Wilsons City of the Plague Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Quarterly Review x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore x Davis' travels in America x Godwin's Mecellanies x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Manuscrit venu de St Helene Buffon's theorie du terre Beaumont and Fletchers Plays x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist. Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy La Nouvelle Heloise Lettres Persiennes Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond Arthur Mervyn x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry. Miseries of human life x Moores odes & epistles Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau x Lamb's Specimens Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde x Mandeville x Laon and Cynthia x Lady Morgan's "France". The three brothers First vol of Humes Essays Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
: Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too] 'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters. xColeridges Lay Sermon Memoirs of Count Gramont Somnium Scipionis Roderick Random Comus Knights of the Swan Cumberlands memoirs de se Junius' letters Journey to the World Underground D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney Round Table by W. Hazlitt Cupids Revenge Martial Maid Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher] x Tales of my Landlord Rambler Waverley Amadis de Gaul Epistolae Plinii Secundi x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius Anna St Ives Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius x Defoe on the Plague x Wilsons City of the Plague Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Quarterly Review x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore x Davis' travels in America x Godwin's Mecellanies x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Manuscrit venu de St Helene Buffon's theorie du terre Beaumont and Fletchers Plays x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist. Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy La Nouvelle Heloise Lettres Persiennes Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond Arthur Mervyn x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry. Miseries of human life x Moores odes & epistles Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau x Lamb's Specimens Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde x Mandeville x Laon and Cynthia x Lady Morgan's "France". The three brothers First vol of Humes Essays Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Epistles, Odes and Other Poems
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too] 'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters. xColeridges Lay Sermon Memoirs of Count Gramont Somnium Scipionis Roderick Random Comus Knights of the Swan Cumberlands memoirs de se Junius' letters Journey to the World Underground D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney Round Table by W. Hazlitt Cupids Revenge Martial Maid Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher] x Tales of my Landlord Rambler Waverley Amadis de Gaul Epistolae Plinii Secundi x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius Anna St Ives Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius x Defoe on the Plague x Wilsons City of the Plague Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Quarterly Review x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore x Davis' travels in America x Godwin's Mecellanies x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Manuscrit venu de St Helene Buffon's theorie du terre Beaumont and Fletchers Plays x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist. Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy La Nouvelle Heloise Lettres Persiennes Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond Arthur Mervyn x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry. Miseries of human life x Moores odes & epistles Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau x Lamb's Specimens Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde x Mandeville x Laon and Cynthia x Lady Morgan's "France". The three brothers First vol of Humes Essays Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Aeneid
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1818. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries] Clarke's travels Aeneid Terence Hume's dissertation on the passsions Sterne's Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey. & letters 2 Vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the Drama Rhododaphne Aminta of Tasso Auvres de Moliere 2 books of the odes of Horace Aristippe & Les Abderites de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Monti's trajedies Orlando Furioso
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Aeneid
'Read S. the 6th & 1st book of the Aeneid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Aeneid
'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
'Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Terence : [Plays]
'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'
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Tacitus : Annales
'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'
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Terence : Andria
'finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering'
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Terence : Eunuchus
'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon'
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David Hume : Four Dissertations
'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions'
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Terence : Heautontimorumenos
'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence'
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Virgil : Aeneid
'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : [probably] Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
'Read Tristram Shandy.'
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Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy
'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A
'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Voltaire : Zadig, ou la destinee
'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Finish Rob. Roy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alicia Lefanu : Helen Monteagle
'read H. Monteagle.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Giaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish tale
'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Corsair, The: a tale
'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Lara: a tale
'Read Lara'
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Percy Bysshe Shelley : [critique of Rhododaphne]
'Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
[anon (ed)] : Ancient English Drama
'read 2 plays in the ancient drama'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Richard Brome : Jovial Crew, A; or the Merry Beggars
'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Digby : Elvira; or, the worst not always true
'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [Italian operas]
'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Terence : [plays]
'Read Montaigne and Terence'
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Basil Hall : Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix... and a vocabulary of the Loo Choo language by H.I. Clifford
'Read voyage to Corea'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Moliere [pseud.] : [Plays]
'Read Moliere's Plays'
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Samuel Richardson : Pamela
'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Pamela
'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Mandeville
'Read Mandeville'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Christoph Martin Wieland : Aristppe und einige seiner Zeitgenossen
'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Christoph Martin Wieland : Aristipp und einige Zeitgenossen
'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Horace : [1st Ode]
'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'
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Christoph Martin Wieland : Geschichte der Abderiten
'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'
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Lucian : [unknown]
'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]'
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Lucian : [unknown]
'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'
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Antoine Galland : Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G.
'Read Mille et un nuits'
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Carlo Gozzi : La Zobeide
'Read and finish Gozzi's play of Zobeide'
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Carlo Gozzi : L'amore delle tre melerance
'Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi'
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Terence : Adelphi
'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'
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Terence : Adelphi
'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'
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Vincenzo Monti : Aristodemo
'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'
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[unknown] : Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Roma il di 11 Maggio 1599
'Finish copying the Cenci'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'
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Terence : Phormio
'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'
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Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Antoine Galland : Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G.
'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Terence : Phormio
'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits'
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Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Zaire
'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Alzire
'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Mahomet
'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire'
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Voltaire [pseud.] : La Merope
'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'
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Voltaire [pseud.] : La Tragedie de Semiramis
'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'
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Voltaire [pseud.] : Tancrede
'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'
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Voltaire [pseud.] : L'Orphelin de Chine
'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'
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Pierre Corneille : Le Cid
'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'
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Pierre Corneille : Horace
'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'
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Pierre Corneille : Cinna
'Read 14th Canto of Ariosto and Cinna of Corneille'
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Pierre Corneille : Polyeucte
'Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille'
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Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'
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Virgil : Aeneid
'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Horace : [3rd Ode]
'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Horace : [Odes 6 and 7]
'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Every Man in his Humour
'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman'
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Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Volpone
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : The Magnetick Lady, or Humours reconciled
'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
J.-J. Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu quatrieme siecle avant le vulgaire
'Read Anacharsis'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Christoph Martin Wieland : Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus
'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'
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Virgil : Aeneid
'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Horace : [Odes]
'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Coriolanus
'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'
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Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'
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Ludovico Ariosto : Orlando Furioso
'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Plato : Symposium
'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Torquato Tasso : Aminta
'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
J.-J. Barthelemy : Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire
'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'
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Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'
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Torquato Tasso : Aminta
'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'
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Torquato Tasso : Aminta
'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'
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Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam, The
'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Bartholomew Fayre
'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
unknown : unknown
&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat there reading till the sun laid down to rest -- I read As you like it [&] found the wild & romantic touches of this Play very accordant with the scene befor[e] me & my feeling'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at eleven -- I stay at home & read Political Justice'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Tale of a Tub
'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'
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Ben Jonson : Case is Altered, The
'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'
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Percy Bysshe Shelley : Revolt of Islam, The
'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Chetwode Eustace : Tour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scenery, its Antiquities, and its Monuments... with an account of the present state of its cities and towns and occasional Observations on the recent Spoliations of the French
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue
'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'
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Horace : Odes
'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'
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William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida
'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida
'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alexander Pope : Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer
'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Bernardin de St Pierre : Paul et Virginie
'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alexander Pope : Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer
'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Prisoner of Chillon, The, and other poems
'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G'
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Plato : Symposium
'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'
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Edmund Spenser : Fowre Hymnes
'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'
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Edmund Spenser : Epithalamion
'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Myrrha
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vincenzo Monti : Cajo Graccho
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure
'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : La Gerusalemme liberata
'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Print: Book
Vincenzo Monti : Galeotto Manfredi, principe di Faenza
'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Filippo
'Read the Filippo of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Polinice
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Antigone
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Rosmunda
'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Virginia
'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : [Plays]
'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV
'Read 4th Canto'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Mazeppa
'Transcribe Mazeppa'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
George Gordon, Lord Byron : 'Ode on Venice'
'Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Vittorio Alfieri : Saul
'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Agide
'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : [Tragedies]
'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Tempest, The
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Two Gentlemen of Verona
'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : Vita di Alfieri
'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Aeneid
'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Battista Manso : La vita di Torquato Tasso
'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Timon of Athens
'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Timon of Athens
'Read Timon of Athens'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : All's Well That Ends Well
'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles Maturin : Women, ou Pour et Contre
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Fudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown the Younger
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Beppo: a Venetian story
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
[unknown] : Life of Virgil
'Read the life of Virgil'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality)
'Read the Black dwarf'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Terence : Hecyra
'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Apuleius : Golden Ass, The (Metamorphoses)
'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Terence : Hecyra
'Finish Terence'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Hans Egede Saabye : Greenland : being Extracts from a Journal kept in that Country in the years 1770 to 1778.
'Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle
'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle
'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
'Read Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Henry Fielding : History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
'finish Joseph Andrews'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Horace : Odes
'Finish the II book of Horace & read Montaigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alain-Rene Lesage : Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
'Read Gil Blas'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Sophie Ristaud Cottin : Claire d'Albe
'Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Souza : Adele de Senage, ou lettres de Lord Sydenham
'Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alain-Rene Lesage : Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
'Finish Gil Blas - read Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Stael : Corinne
'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Stael : Corinne
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Lines written among the Eugenean Hills'
'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Virgil : Georgics
'Read the Georgics'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Georgics
'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Georgics
'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame Fauques de Vaucluse : The Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An oriental tale
'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray : Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas
'Read Sismondi - & Faublas'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age
'finish Sismondi'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England
'Read the 1st vol of Mandeville'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'a rainy day - visit the Coliseum - Read the bible'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Michel de Montaigne : Essais
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'Read Hamlet'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : King Lear
'Read King Lear'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Othello
'Read Othello'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Julius Caesar
'Read Julius Caesar'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : King John
'Read King John - & Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803
'Read Forsyth's tour'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Joseph Forsyth : Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803
'Finish Forsyth's tour'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Merry Wives of Windsor, The
'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des Dames
'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Pietro Metastasio : [unknown]
'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Pietro Metastasio : [unknown]
'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames
'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames
'Read Bib. de Chevalerie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Chrysostomus : [unknown]
'Read Livy - & Chrysostome'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y Villegas : Suenos y discursos de verdades
'Read the vision of Quivedo'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : [possibly] Decameron
'read Bocaccio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'read the Decameroni'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : Decameron
'Finish the Decamerone'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Miguel de Cervantes : Los rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional
'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Clarke : Travels
[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too] 'M Clarke's Travels Hume's dissertation on the passions Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c 2 vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the drama Oeuvres de Moliere Aristippes de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Mille et une nuits Tragedies de Voltaire Trajedies de Corneille x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis Ben Jonson's Comedies Pope's Homer Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne Faublas Italian Pamela x Aminta of Tasso Monti's Tragedies x Orlando Furioso Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata tragedies of Alfieri x Inferno of Dante Vita di Alfieri Latin x The Aenied [sic] Terence's Comedies 2 books of Horace 10 books of Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Vita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da esso
[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too] 'M Clarke's Travels Hume's dissertation on the passions Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c 2 vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the drama Oeuvres de Moliere Aristippes de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Mille et une nuits Tragedies de Voltaire Trajedies de Corneille x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis Ben Jonson's Comedies Pope's Homer Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne Faublas Italian Pamela x Aminta of Tasso Monti's Tragedies x Orlando Furioso Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata tragedies of Alfieri x Inferno of Dante Vita di Alfieri Latin x The Aenied [sic] Terence's Comedies 2 books of Horace 10 books of Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : Georgics
[Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on these references] 'm Georgics x Sismondis Histoire des Republics Italiennes 2 Vols of MOntaigne Forsyth's tour x Romans de la Chevalerie Visions de Quivedo Bocaccio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Etienne Francois de Lantier : Les Voyages d'Antenor en Grece et en Asie, avec des notions sur l'Egypte, manuscrit grec trouve a Herculaneum, traduit par E-F Lantier
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Joseph Addison : Spectator, The
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucan : Pharsalia
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucan : Pharsalia
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Edinburgh Review
'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Remorse: a tragedy in five acts
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucan : Pharsalia
'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : New Inn, The
'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Poetaster, The
'Write - Read the Poetaster'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Beaumont : Wife for a Month, The
'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Cenci, The
'Copy S's Tragedy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Francis Beaumont : [Plays]
'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Francis Beaumont : [Plays]
'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Fletcher : Chances, The
'Read the Chances'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucan : Pharsalia
'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
: prayers
Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 October 1821: 'I read her [invalid Elizabeth Barrett's] prayers to her today in the bible, & she has altogether been very comfortable'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Moulton-Barrett Print: Book
Philip Massinger : [unknown]
'read Massinger'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Horace : Odes
'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Fletcher : Night Walker or, the Little Thief
'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mateo Aleman : Guzman de Alfarache
'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mateo Aleman : Guzman de Alfarache
'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Horace : Odes
'Finish the 1st book of Horace's Odes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Friedich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte Fouque : Undine, eine Erzahlung
'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Peter Bell the Third
'Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Antoine Hamilton : M?moirs de la vie du comte de Grammont contenant particulierement histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous la r?gne de Charles II
'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of the Revolution - & Clarendon aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : Lettres
'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Fletcher : Love's Pilgrimage
'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne : Lettres
'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady
[Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] '2 Vols of Montaigne Forsyths tour Romans de la Chevalerie Vision de Quivedo Clarissa Harlowe The Spectator The Bible as far as the Psalms in latin Twenty books of Livy - making thirty with the ten of last year Lucan's Pharsalia 3 books of Horace Gussman d'Afarache Memoires du Compte de Grammont Lettres de Madme Sevigne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
'Read Don Juan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Mazeppa
'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Baruch Spinoza : Tractatus Theologico-politicus
'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'Read the Bible'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Proverbs
'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Ecclesiastes
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Song of Solomon
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Reisen vor der Sundfluth
'Read Travels before the flood'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger : Reisen vor der Sundfluth
'Finish Travels before the flood'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
various : [pamphlets on Irish politics]
'Read Pamphlets.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
'Begin Julie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits
'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits
'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Bartolomeo de las Casas : Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias
'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits
'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Catiline his Conspiracy
'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Paine : Common Sense
'Read Common Sense'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Paine : Letter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs of North America
'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology
'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology
'Read Age of Reason'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas More : Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas More : Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
'Finish the Utopia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Paine : Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology
'Finish the Age of Reason'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Paine : Rights of Man, The
'Read Rights of Man'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens : Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d' Argens : Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique & critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires & le Seigneur Astaroth
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : [unknown]
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire
'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Machiavelli : La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet : Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet : Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme
'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Macchiavelli : La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca
'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Anna Laetitia Barbauld : Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened
'Read Life of Voltaire - & Evenings at home'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Patrick Brydone : Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford
'Finish Bridones travels - read Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Ovid : [unknown]
'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
'read Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Henry Reveley : Encyclopaedia
'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Day : History of Sandford and Merton; a work intended for the use of children
'Read Sandford & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Read Vind. of the Right of Woman'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Day : History of Sandford and Merton: a work intended for the use of children
'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
'Read Boswell's life of Johnson'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Memoirs of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'read Memoirs.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Posthumous Works of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
'read Letters from Norway'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
'Finish Letters from No[r]way'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Mary: a fiction
'Read Livy - Mary - a fiction'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose)
'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt (ed.) : Indicator, The
'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Walter Scott : Tales of my Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose)
'Read the Bride of Lammermoor'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Read Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Finish Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield, The
'Read Vicar of Wakefield'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Caleb Williams, or Things as they are
'Read Caleb Williams'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Caleb Williams, or Things as they are
'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A
'Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'Read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Conyers Middleton : History of the Life of marcus Tullius Cicero
'Read Middletons Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita
'Finish Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : [First Oration]
'First Oration of Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : [First Oration]
'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line
'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : [Second Oration]
'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Percy : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Walter Scott : Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
: 'old English [i.e. Renaissance] drama'
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Victor Hugo : plays
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Victor Hugo : Notre-Dame de Paris
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Jean Froissart : Chronicles
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : 'The Poet's Vow'
Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my childhood; and after them came Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Borders," the favourite of my youth; so that I am prepared to love ballads [...] Are you a great reader of the old English drama? I am -- preferring it to every other sort of reading; of course admitting, and regretting, the grossness of the age; but that, from habit, one skips, without a thought just as I should over so much Greek or Hebrew which I knew I could not comprehend. have you read Victor Hugo's Plays? (he also is one of my naughty pets), and his "Notre Dame?" I admit the bad taste of these, the excess; but the power and the pathos are to me indescribably great. And then he has [...] made the French a new language. He has accomplished this partly by going back to the old fountains, Froissart, &c. Again, these old Chronicles are great books of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Serial / periodical
Mary Russell Mitford : "The Widow's Dog"
Mary Hunter (aged 10) to Elizabeth Barrett, quoted in letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: '"I read today in a magazine a tale of Miss Mitford's about the widow's dog Chloe who was very faithful and would go back to the widow's house. If you do not know the story, I dare say she will tell it to you. I should like to know Miss Mitford very much -- for her writings are [italics]so[end italics] beautiful & affectionate, -- and I think she would not dislike children."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
Cicero : Pro Roscio Amerino
'Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : Pro Roscio Comoedo
'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Catherine Macaulay : History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Cicero : Actio prima in Verrem
'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : [unknown]
'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Fortiguerra : Ricciardetto
'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lodovico Antonio Muratori : Dissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell'Italiana favella
'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : [unknown]
'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the King. To which are added, copies of their correspondence since the period of their separation. And the Queen's Character.
'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Swellfoot the Tyrant
'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
[unknown] : [books on Ireland]
'Muratori - greek - Irish books'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lodovico Antonio Muratori : Dissertazioni sopra le Antichit? italiane gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell' Italiana favella
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
L.F. Jauffret : THE TRAVELS OF ROLANDO Containing in a Supposed Tour Round the World, Authentic Descriptions of the Geography, Natural History, Manners and Antiquities of Various Countries
'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
L.F. Jauffret : Travels of Rolando Containing in a Supposed Tour Round the World, Authentic Descriptions of the Geography, Natural History, Manners and Antiquities of Various Countries
'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Villani : Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII
'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?ge
'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francesco Petrarch : [unknown]
'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida
'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi : Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen age
'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan
'Read Don Juan'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Charles Lamb : Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
'Read Lambs Specimens'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Prometheus Unbound
'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
[n/a] : Indicator
'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
John Keats : Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poems
'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Villani : Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII
'Read Villani'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Erskine : Armata: a fragment
'read Armata - read Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Homer : [unknown]
'read Armata - read Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Stael : Corinne
'read Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti : [unknown]
'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Pedro Calderon de la Barca : [unknown]
'Don Quixote & Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote
'Don Quixote & Calderon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Witch of Atlas, The'
'Copy the Witch of Atlas'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
[n/a] : Indicator
'Greek - not well - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Friedrich Heinrich Karl : Sintram und seine Gefahrten
'Greek - Sintram - S. not well'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : [unknown]
'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mandeville : Fable of the Bees
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Tegrimi : Vita Castruccio Castracani
[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on this list] 'M. (& (S with an x) - 1820 The remainder of Livy. x The Bible until the end of Ezekhiel x Don Juan x Travels Before the Flood La Nouvelle Heloise The Fable of the Bees Paine's Works Utopia x Voltaire's Memoires x The Aenied [sic] And Georgics Bridone's Travels Robinson Crusoe Sandford & Merton x Astronomy in the Encyclopaedia Vindication of the Rights of women x Boswell's life of Johnson Paradise regained & lost Mary - Letters from Norway & Posthumus [sic] Works Ivanhoe - Tales of my Landlord Fleetwood - Caleb Williams x Ricciardetto. x Mrs Macauly's [sic] Hist. of Engd x Lucretius The 3 first orations of Cicero Muratori Anti chita [sic] d'Italia Travels & Rebellion in Ireland Tegrino's life of Castruccio x Boccacio [sic] - Decamerone x Keats' poems x armata Corinne The first book of Homer. Oedippus [sic] Tyrannus A Little Spanish & much Italian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : [unknown]
'Greek - Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : [unknown]
'Greek - Voltaire's Tales'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Abbot, The: a romance
'Read the Abbot'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannus
'Read Oedipus Tyrannus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannus
'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giovanni Villani : Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII
'Read Villani'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'Dante's Vita Nuova'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Racine : Letters
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not for their slavish servile devotion to the king (and I think it was real), and to that odious woman Madame de Maintenon.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Nicolas Boileau Despreaux : Letters
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not for their slavish servile devotion to the king (and I think it was real), and to that odious woman Madame de Maintenon.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
: Church of England catechism
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1840: '[Mary Hunter] was brought up a dissenter among dissenters, & amused herself one day when she & I were together in a bookseller's shop, with looking over for a novelty the church catechism'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hunter Print: Book
William Harrison Ainsworth : Jack Sheppard: A Romance
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840: 'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been struck by the great danger, in these times, of representing authority so constantly and fearfully in the wrong, so tyrannous, so devilish, as the author has been pleased to portray it in "Jack Sheppard" [...] Of course Mr Ainsworth had no such design, but such is the effect; and as the millions who see it represented at the minor theatres will not distinguish between now and a hundred years back, all the Chartists in the land are less dangerous than this nightmare of a book, and I, Radical as I am, lament any additional temptations to outbreak, with all its train of horrors.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N. : novels
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840: 'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but I have never seen him. Without being one of his indiscriminate admirers, I like parts of his books (some of which I have read to my father), and have been told that they have done good in the profession -- suggestions thrown out in them having been taken up and acted upon by the Lords of the Admiralty'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'Finish the Vita Nuova.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Philip Sidney : Defence of Poesie, The
'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Philip Sidney : Defence of Poesie, The
'Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Defence of Poetry, A
'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
John Taaffe : Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Sophocles : Antigone
'finish the Antigone'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima
'Osservatore Fiorentino'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Marco Lastri : L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima
'Finish the Osservatore F.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Anacreon : [Odes]
'Read 3 odes of Anacreon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Williams : Promise, The; or, a Year, a Month, and a Day
'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Walter Scott (ed.) : Ancient English Drama
'Old Plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population, An
'read Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : System of Magick, A; or, a History of the black art. Being an historical account of mankind's most early dealings with the Devil; and how the acquaintance on both sides first began
'Read Treatise on Magic & Malthus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population, An
'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Of Poulation... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject
'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Of Population... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject
'read the Answer to Malthus - finish it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [Ancient Greek works]
'read greek - read Mackenzies works'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Henry Mackenzie : [Works]
'read greek - read Mackenzies works'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Richard Lovell Edgeworth : Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
'read Edgeworths life.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Sophocles : Philoctetes
'Read Philoctetes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Homer : Odyssey
'Read Homer - Old plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott (ed.) : Ancient English Drama
'Read Homer - Old plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Henry Matthews : Diary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour... in Portugal, Italy and France in the Years 1817-19
'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Homer : Odyssey
'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both my husband and myself have always derived from your writing. We know your "village" and all its crofts, and lanes and people, and we wish we had the happiness of peronally knowing you.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Thomas Noon Talfourd : Ion
'Thank you very much for the gift of "Ion"; the tragedy was known to us by extracts, and our desire to see it was great. We like it very much - it is a noble descendant of the noble Greek tragedy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Robert Nicholls : Arouse the Soul
'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, full of life, humour, and the noblest elements of poetry. I cannot tell you how such poems as "Arouse the Soul," "I Dare not Scorn," and others such of which this volume has many, affect me. It is such writing as this which makes one feel that talent is nobler than birth, and high-mindedness of more worth than gold.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Robert Nicholls : I Dare not Scorn
'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, full of life, humour, and the noblest elements of poetry. I cannot tell you how such poems as "Arouse the Soul," "I Dare not Scorn," and others such of which this volume has many, affect me. It is such writing as this which makes one feel that talent is nobler than birth, and high-mindedness of more worth than gold.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
: Advertisement for new edition of Mary Russell Mitford's "Our Village"
'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, full of fair pictures of humanity, which, especially where there are children who love reading and being read to, becomes a household book, turned to again and again, and remembered and talked of with affection. So it is by our fireside; it is a work our little daughter has read, and loves to read, and which our little son Alfred, a most indomitable young gentleman, likes especially - not so much for its variety of character, which gives its charm to his sister's mind, but for its descriptions of the country... Such, dear Miss Mitford, being the case, when I saw the new edition advertised, I began to cast in my mind whether or not we could not buy it...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Advertisement
Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi
'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction. It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Samuel Laman Blanchard : Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 June 1841: 'I have been reading Blanchard's life of poor L.E.L. [...] The book is to me deeply affecting. She was a fine creature thrown away'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Edward Bulwer Lytton : Rienzi
'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction. It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
: Blackwood's Magazine
'I saw it [praise of Joanna Baillie] in "Blackwood's" this present month, and with indignation too. I never deny the wonderful excellence of Joanna Baillie, but no one shall persuade me that "Rienzi" is not as good as any drama by her.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Serial / periodical
Leigh Hunt : Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 October 1841: 'I never read Leigh Hunt's book [...] because (now comes a foolish reason) I had understood that he said cruel things & ungrateful of poor Lord Byron [...] Lately, wishing to think Leigh Hunt above that shame, I have been wishing myself to get the book & make it out "not so bad". Strange, that you shd read it only now! -- just now!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : 'Adonais'
'read S's Adonais.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own
J. Hutchinson : Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson... to which is prefixed the Life of Mrs Hutchinson written by herself
'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
E. Ludlow : Memors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3 1640
'Read Ludlow's memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
E. Ludlow : Memors of E. Ludlow Esq., Lieutenant-General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3 1640
'Read Ludlow's Memoirs'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Shelley : Valperga
'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Homer : Odyssey
'read 2 books of Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Mary Shelley : Matilda
'read Matilda to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Thomas Hope : Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek
'read Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Kenilworth: a romance
'finish Kenilworth'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Cain
'read Cain'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Vision of Judgment, The
'Read the Vision of Judgement'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Harriet Lee : 'Kruitzner or the German's tale'
'Read the German's tale'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams
'read Caleb Williams to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [Greek texts]
' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it be so difficult - it so richly repays one. Yet I read little for I am not well.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John G. Dalyell : Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea
'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Tegrimi : Vita Castrucci Castracani
'Read - Tegrino'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Shelley : Matilda
'Read Matilda to E.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Shelley : Valperga
'Finish C.A. to Jane'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Tacitus : Annals
'Read Tacitus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Milton : Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The
'Read Milton on divorce'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Tacitus : Annals
'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Ivanhoe
'Read Ivanhoe'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Waverley, or 'tis Sixty Years Since
'Read Homer and Waverly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Antiquary, The
'Read Homer and the Antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Walter Scott : Rob Roy
'Read Rob Roy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'Read Emile'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Werner
'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Sardanapalus, a Tragedy
'read Sardanapalus'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Two Foscari, The
'Read the Two Foscari'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Walter Scott : Pirate, The
'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Homer : [probably] Odyssey
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : [unknown]
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Hope : Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek
'Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Hope : Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek
'Finish Anastatius [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
'Read Letters from Norway'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
'Read Wrongs of Woman'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lady Morgan : Florence Macarthy: an Irish Tale
'read Florence Macarthy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
David Lyndsay [pseud.] : Dramas of theAncient World
'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francois Fenelon : Les Aventures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou suite du quatrieme livre de l'Odyssee d'Homere
'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Macchiavelli : Historie Fiorentine
'begin Macchiavelli's history.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Macchiavelli : Historie Fiorentine
'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Homer : Odyssey
'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Anthony Hamilton : Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont
'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand : Atala; ou les amours de deux sauvages
'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Euripides : Ion
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
E. Ludlow : Memoirs of E. Ludlow Esq.; Lieutenant-General of the horse, commander in chief of the forces in Ireland, one of the council of state, and a member of the parliament which began on NOvember 3 1640
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : Gerusalemme Liberata
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Virgil : [probably] Georgics
'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Bacon : Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In ten centuries.
'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francis Bacon : Apopthegmes New and Old
'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Immanuel Kant : Physische Geographie
'Kant's Geografica Fisica'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Milton : Samson Agonistes
'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Stael : Memoires sur la vie privee de mon pere, par Madame la Baronne de Stael Holstein, suivis des Melanges de M. Necker
'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Milton : Samson Agonistes
'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Immanuel Kant : Physische Geographie
'Finish the 1st Vol of Geografica Fisica'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Immanuel Kant : Physische Geographie
'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Niccolo Ugo Foscolo : Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling : Theory of Pneumatology
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1841: 'Mrs Niven may keep the Pneumatology as long, just as long, as she pleases. I am glad she cares to look into it. I am pleased that the first glance into it has interested [italics]you[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
: daily newspapers
Mary Russell Mitford to William Harness, February 1842: 'My poor father has passed this winter in a miserable state of health and spirits. His eyesight fails him now so completely that he cannot even read ... the newspaper. Accordingly, I have not only every day gone through the daily paper, debates and all ... but after that, I have read to him from dark till bedtime'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Newspaper
Frances Trollope : The Blue Belles of England
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 9 January 1842: 'My dear love -- I have just looked through the Blue Belles -- and so far as I can guess at Mrs Trollope's people [...] I should say that Lady Dort was Mrs Skinner of Portland Place -- who is really quite as absurd if not more so [goes on to identify possible originals of other characters in text]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Frances Burney : Diary and Letters (Volume 1)
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1842: 'I have only read the first volume of Madame D'Arblay's "Diary." Dr Johnson appears to the greatest possible advantage [...] and Mrs Thrale -- oh that warm heart! that lively sweetness! My old governess knew her as Mrs Piozzi, in Wales [...] As to the little Burney, I don't like her at all [...] A girl of the world -- a woman of the world [...] thought clearly and evidently of nothing on this earth but herself and "Evelina."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
H. F. Chorley : Music and Manners
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 March 1842: 'Since writing to you yesterday, my beloved friend, I have read in H. F. C[horley]'s "Music and Manners" the account of a visit which he made to Madame d'Abrantes, I think in '39 [goes on to relate anecdote given]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Unknown
Mary Shelley : [letters to PB Shelley]
'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his absences at Marlow. What a scene to recur to! My William, Clara, Allegra are all talked of - They lived then - They breathed this air & their voices struck on my sense; their feet trod the earth beside me - & their hands were warm with blood and life when clasped in mine'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Letter
[unknown] : [unknown]
'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say "Mary" - "It is Shelley" I thought - the revulsion was of agony - Never more shall I hear his beloved voice'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Homer : Odyssey
'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton : Paul Clifford
'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulwer become? the first Author of the age? I do not doubt it - he is a magnificent writer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries
'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - in fact I didn't have the slightest idea of what it would contain - I beg you if ever this book falls into your hands, do not read it. - it would cause you pain' [translation of a letter from Mary Shelley to Teresa Guiccioli]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : Memoires inedits de madame la comtesse de Genlis
'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 vols. - Above all, dear, get the Promessi Sposi - at first you may lag a little, but as you get on the truth & perfect Italianism of the manners and desciptions - the beautiful language which differs from all other Italian prose - being really the Tusca[n] of the day that he writes, & not a bad imitation of the [ ] trecentisti - the pasion & even sublimity of parts rendered it to me a most delightful book - I can imagine a person who had not been to Italy not liking it but to [underlined] us [end underlining] it must be delightful.' [letter to Jane Williams Hogg]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi
'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 vols. - Above all, dear, get the Promessi Sposi - at first you may lag a little, but as you get on the truth & perfect Italianism of the manners and desciptions - the beautiful language which differs from all other Italian prose - being really the Tusca[n] of the day that he writes, & not a bad imitation of the [ ] trecentisti - the pasion & even sublimity of parts rendered it to me a most delightful book - I can imagine a person who had not been to Italy not liking it but to [underlined] us [end underlining] it must be delightful.' [letter to Jane Williams Hogg]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Prosper Merimee : La Jacquerie
'[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.' [letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Crofton Croker : Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose' [letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Banim : Tales by the O'Hara Family
'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certainly exonerate the Anglo Irish from the charge of impropriety - but I do not think it as clever as the Nowlans' [letter to ? Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
James Boaden : Man of Two Lives, The
'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happily - yet it strikes me to be a translation - the phrases, the thoughts - the incidents are so truly German.' [letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Washington Irving : Conquest of Granada, The
'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - the Conquest of Granada - I want to consult it, and have been disappointed in having it from Hookham - No book has delighted me so much for a very long time - Your kind offer with regard to books has made me take this liberty - I hope I do not do wrong' [Letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Stendhal [pseud.] : Promenades dans Rome
'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it quite impossible to do anything with it' [leter to John George Cochrane, editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review - presumably Mary had undertaken to review the book]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Life of Lord Byron
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life - I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infinitely well what pleases me - Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy tact displayed by Mr Moore, which distinguish this book - I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece - and on his return - there is strength and richness as well as sweetness The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same for you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is our Lord Byron - the fascinating - faulty - childish - philosophical being - daring the world - docile to a private circle - impetuous and indolent - gloomy and yet more gay than any other - I live with him again in these pages - getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful and buoyant tone of his conversation and manners - [...] There is something cruelly kind in this single volume When will the next come? - impatient before how tenfold now am I so. Among its many other virtues this book is [underlined] accurate [end underlining] to a miracle I have not stumbled on one mistake with regard either to time place or feeling' [letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Godwin : Cloudesley
'I have just finished Cloudesley - the interest is inexpressibly absorbing - there is a truth and majesty in the delineation of the passions, and a simplicity and grace in the style different from the present day - and striking one as one reads as how infinitely superior' [Letter to Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley - Mary's publishers]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon : Romance and Reality
'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining] she has too much fancy & feeling for - I was deeply interested in the 3d Vol - it does her heart & imagination both great credit. Cavendish I find very amusing' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Johnson Neale : Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea
'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining] she has too much fancy & feeling for - I was deeply interested in the 3d Vol - it does her heart & imagination both great credit. Cavendish I find very amusing' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
William Johnson Neale : Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea
'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite about certain things; it is bad enough that they are' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Bulwer : Eugene Aram
' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - some events in the family of a friend of mine forced me to go out of town, & took all my attention forcibly away from my task. However my article is now in full progress - & I write to tell you so that you may expect it next week. One thing I am plagued about - Colburn has been too stingy to give me a copy - & getting it from a library it is continually sent for back It is a wonderful and divine book - though so very sad' [Letter to John Bowring]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of Normanby : Contrast, The
'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of May Fair or Arlington -' [letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Bulwer : Godolphin
'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.] : Marriage in High Life, A
'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wished [much] to please me you would send them and [Trevyllian] Trevellian - which I should like to read as being by the person who wrote Marriage in High Life' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Anselm von Feurbach : Caspar Hauser
'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply exciting work - It reminds me much of Calderon's La Vida es Sueno' [letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Giambattista Marino : L'Adone
'I have just begun the Adone - & like it' [letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besides that I do love the kind hearted wise & Gentle Bear - & think him as loveable a [Man] friend as a profound philosopher' [letter to John Murray, who had just published a new edition of Boswell's Life Of Johnson that Mary was keen to possess]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lady Stepney : Heir Presumptive, The
'Lady Stepney's Novel shall be returned to you in a day or two - It is very clever & amusing' [Letter to Charles Ollier]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Caroline Norton : "The Wife" and "Woman's Reward"
'I have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain such true observations - thoughts that come home to one's heart, even till it aches, as shew the Authoress to have the greatest sensibility joined to her acknowledged talent' [Letter to Elizabeth Stanhope]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Gisborne : [a tale of Italy]
'I am anxious to thank S.G. [Signor Giovanni = John Gisborne] for the pleasure I have received from his tale of Italy a tale all Italy - breathing of the land I love - the descriptions are beautiful - & he has shed a great charm round the concentrated & undemonstrative person of his gentle heroine. I suppose she is the reality of the story. - Did you know her? - It is difficult however to judge how to procure for it the publication it deserves [Mary details the problems] But there arises a stronger objection from the length of the story - As the merit lies in the beauty of the details, I do not see how it could [be] but cut down to [underlined] one quarter [underlining ends] of its present length, which is as long as any tale printed in an Annual' [Letter to Maria Gisborne]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.] : Works of Garcilaso de la Vega
' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?' [letter to John Bowring who was helpiing Mary with Spanis researches]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Legend of Florence, A
'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you write about it) lovely world.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Alexander Andrew Knox : Heir of Cyprus, The
'You liked "St Thomas's Eve" which gave great promise - a promise which "The Heir Of Cyprus" redeems. The tory is far more artistically, & is indeed admirably managed, whilst the poetry is not less spirited and fervid. It is presumptuous, I fear, to speak thus - but I think that animated by your genius, the character of the Hero will have a very powerful effect on the stage' [letter to William Macready]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
Thomas Noon Talfourd : Recollections of a first visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841
'Will you thank Mr Talfourd for the kind present of his pleasant book' [letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Abraham Hayward : [account of Euroipean travels]
'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning your name?' [letter to Abraham Hayward. Mary is preparing her own acount of travels in Germany and Italy in 1841/2]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt
'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you have done the most difficult thing in the world with so true a grace that you more than reconcile me to the alterations. The Story of Rimini is certainly more true, more complete more beautiful as it now stands.' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Imagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the English Poets
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Inferno
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Purgatorio
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : Paradiso
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
John Keats : 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio & Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty & joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses & even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley's most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - & the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - & then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude -il mio veder fu maggio Che'l parlar nostro, ch'a tal vista cede. E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio Quale e colui ch soguando vede, E dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa Rimane, e l'altro alla menta non riede Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa Mia visione, e ancor mi distila Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa. Cosi la neve al sole disigilla Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard "amid the alien corn" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings at night - in shady places - & never so late in the season - May is her month - Excuse all this' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
James Abbott : [story of India]
[Mary writes to Alexander Blackwood, asking if he might be inclined to accept for "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" a tale by a Captain Abbott] 'The tale is long & would be distributed over several numbers of your Magazine - It is of course faithful in scenery & Costume - & is in short a romantic tale of India by an Old Indian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn : Grafin Faustine
'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very clever - all about Clement is excellent - two things I think erroneous - one is bad management on the part of the authoress the other unnatural - She ought to have accounted better for the absence of Andlau - In the situation she describes he wd have come back or sent for her - never have allowed so long a separation - the unnatural thing is Faustina ever wishing to leave her child - a woman of that directness of feeling is always I think maternal but I like the book & it is clever - lend it to Knox when you have read it' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn : [a novel]
'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very clever - all about Clement is excellent - two things I think erroneous - one is bad management on the part of the authoress the other unnatural - She ought to have accounted better for the absence of Andlau - In the situation she describes he wd have come back or sent for her - never have allowed so long a separation - the unnatural thing is Faustina ever wishing to leave her child - a woman of that directness of feeling is always I think maternal but I like the book & it is clever - lend it to Knox when you have read it' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Manuscript: Unknown
Elizabeth Barrett : letter to Mary Russell Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I made my father happy in reading what you say of Sir Robert [Peel]: his eyes brightened like diamonds at the sound. For my part, I incline to think with one of Miss Edgeworth's heroines, that "he cannot be so very artful as is said, because everybody does say so."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Manuscript: Letter
: speeches of Daniel O'Connell
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I remember a few years ago reading speeches by O'Connell in one of the Irish papers, which, with the faults of Irish oratory, had yet life and power.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Newspaper
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: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Serial / periodical
Scott : 'Tom Cringle's Log'
Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 12 January 1842: 'In reading "Tom Cringle's Log" to my father, the other day, I find that Mr Scott, the author, speaks of the Speaker of the House of Assembly in Jamaica as the handsomest and most agreeable man in the island. Now, he must have been Miss [Elizabeth] Barrett's uncle, who held that station for very many years before his death, which occurred two or three years ago'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Unknown
: death notice of Lady Sidmouth
Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 4 May 1842: 'I have had a great shock lately, in the death of poor Lady Sidmouth. I received from her two letters at once, on the Tuesday, accompanying a small portion of honey from Hymettus, which I sent, in right of Museship, to Miss [Elizabeth] Barrett; and on Friday I read her death in the newspaper.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Newspaper
[unknown] : [advertisement]
'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being burnt down, my attention was caught by one of the very numerous bills with which the boards, at that time surrounding it, were covered: it ran thus - "Susan Hopley; or the Life of a Maid Servant". This book, I thought to myself, must be a novelty...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
[unknown] : [newspapers]
'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Newspaper
[unknown] : [tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]
'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Broadsheet
Catherine Crowe : Susan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid Servant
'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work to write her own life story]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Alfred Tennyson : 'Locksley Hall'
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 13 December 1842: 'I read Tennyson. "Locksley Hall" is very fine; but should it not have finished at '"I myself must mix with action, Lest I wither by despair"? 'It seems to me that all after that weakens the impression of the story, which has its appropriate finish with that line.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Thornton Hunt : Foster Brother, The
'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The sincerity and earnestness of the author gives
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Knox : Morning Chronicle
'The article in todays Chronicle about the curry powder [about the duke of Norfolk's suggestion that workers could alleviate hunger by dissolving it in water] is by Knox' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
Leigh Hunt : Stories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the writers
'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for his oppression - except that a sense that they are right, because they are taught to consider themselves authorities to themselves, is the one thing taught by flatterers and courtiers to the great [Mary then comments further on this and on Tasso's life] Your Pulci is admirable - & so is your Ariosto - & in truth your book is a true and valuable gift to your country'. [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Harriet Martineau : Forest and Game-law Tales
'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I [underlined] do [end underlining] thank you. I liked the 3d tale, "Maude Chapel Farm" very much.' [letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : [biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Schiller
'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckling to the times - and mistakes the spirit of the times, & casts an indelible stain on his own name, as long as it survives.' [letter to Edward Moxon]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Wit and Humour
'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be as great a favourite as the first - and "Wit and Humour" do their best to rival "Imagination and Fancy". You and Chaucer help them very much - but they are at a disadvantage. Surprize is said to be one of the ingredients of Wit - & it is deprived of that when at every turn of a page you are sure to find it Wit & humour also want a voice - & when read in silence can never raise the laugh that they excite in a sociable circle - thus indeed you [sic] new volume ought to be an Xmas gift & brought out with King and Queen & forfeits amid its festivities' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Wit and Humour
'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of Quevedo? the Spanish wit? - whose dry humour is very pointed - His account of the different awakenings of different characters for the day of Judgement is one among many specimens' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas : [unknown]
'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of Quevedo? the Spanish wit? - whose dry humour is very pointed - His account of the different awakenings of different characters for the day of Judgement is one among many specimens' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Abraham Hayward : Verses of Other Days
'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality being unaffected, & easy - Thank you for them very much'. [letter to Abraham Hayward]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Leigh Hunt : Men, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs
'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your volumes with great pleasure recognizing old friends' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Examiner
'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]' [letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
Edward Bulwer : Night & Morning
'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The vast masses of energy & life broken up by the great thaw of the imperial system, floating along the tide are terrible icebergs for the vessel of the state. Some think Napoleonism [he ought to say revolutionism - MS's comment] over - its effects are only begun [underlined by MS] Society is shattered from one end to the other, & I laught at the little rivers by which they think to keep it together.[end underlining] - the last is curious.' [MS does not close her quotation marks] [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[n/a] : Times
'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles' [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Times
'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come out in the Lucia' [sing in "Lucia di Lammermoor" [letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843: 'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sweet girl! [...] We go to Harrow today to see Byrons Tombstone [i.e. his favourite spot in the local churchyard] & autograph -- & to amuse her, as she reads him with such interest.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Mordwinoff Haydon Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : 'The House of Clouds'
Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 August 1843: 'Miss Mitford read to me -- and with what a melodious feeling she reads poetry -- your "House of Clouds." I did not know of it before. I thought it very beautiful [...] Miss Mitford thought it your [italics]best[end italics] production -- I, one of them.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford
Eugene Sue : The Mysteries of Paris
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. I know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius which radiates, from end to end, through that extraordinary work [...] the writer, if of less general power than Balzac, is still more copious in imagination & creation. He glories in all extremities & intensities of evil & of passion [...] he has written other romances [...] "Mathilde" interested me beyond them all, & consists of some seven or eight volumes [...] but except for the insight it gives into French society, I am not sure that you wd be pleased with it [...] I have been thinking that the American translation in which you read the "Mysteries," may probably be a [italics]purified[end italics] edition, of which I have seen some notices.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Casimir Delavigne : Louis XI
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Casimir Delavigne : Marino Faliero
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Casimir Delavigne : Les Enfants d'Edouard
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Casimir Delavigne : Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Casimir Delavigne : La Popularite
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Casimir Delavigne : La Fille du Cid
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Casimir Delavigne : Une Famille au temps de Luther
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Faliero," "Les Enfans d'Edouard [sic]," "Don Juan d'Autriche," "La Popularite," "La Fille du Cid," "Une Famille du temps de Luther [sic]," forming the second and third series of his "Theatre." To me they seem full of talent; striking the just medium between the slowness and dullness of what they call the classical drama [...] and the unnatural and exaggerated contrasts and surprises of Victor Hugo'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Eugene Sue : Le Salamandre (including Preface)
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among those you ask about, is "Le Salamandre" [...] As strange a work it is as ever was written -- with few indications of the power to come. The only remarkable thing is the preface, in which, by way of reason for making all his people unhappy in this world, or rather for taking them out of it by being shot and shooting themselves, he says that to represent good people as successful in this world and rogues as unsuccessful would take away the chief argument for a future life.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Honore de Balzac : Une tenebreuse affaire
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among those you ask about, is "Le Salamandre" [...] The only remarkable thing is the preface, in which [...] he says that to represent good people as successful in this world and rogues as unsuccessful would take away the chief argument for a future life. Now I really do hold that virtue, although not always prosperous, is yet upon the whole far happier than vice [...] I am quite sure that to represent systematically vice as fortunate, and goodness as wretched, tends to make selfish people vicious; and it is really wicked in Balzac to give one the pain he does in this way. In "Une Tenebreuse Affaire," for instance, I was so provoked with him for making Napoleon kill Michu and forgive those dolts of gentlemen, that I could have flung the book at his (Balzac's) head, if luckily that wonderful head had been within reach.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Frederika Bremer : The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'Ah! dearest love, Frederika Bremer! I did read half "The Neighbours," and really you are the only person of a high class of mind whom I have found liking her works.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
unknown : Twelve True Old Golden Rules
[TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules For those who like to fare better than they now do, and at the same time to thrive and grow rich. 1 The ready penny always fetches the best bargain. He who buys upon trust, must not complain if he is cheated. The shopkeeper suspects the customer who buys on trust, and thinks that he means to cheat and never to pay; and therefore he takes good care to be before hand, and charges highly accordingly. 2 The best pennyworth is to be had where most sit together in the open market; and bargains are often cheaper in the latter end of the day. When honest men have done their work, it is better for them to go to market than to the alehouse 3 When times are hard, why should we make them harder Still, it is not enough to be taxed once by Government without being taxed by folly, thrice by drunkenness four times by Laziness, and so on ? a good man, even in hard times will do twice as well as a bad man will in the best of times, let us all then rise up against ourselves, who thus tax and injure ourselves and we shall soon find that the times mend. let us do good to ourselves at home, and we shall become happy in our own habitations; and learn that it is a true saying, that God helps those who help themselves. 4 Time is our estate; it is our most valuable property If we lose it, or waste it, we can never ? never purchase it back again. We ought, therefore, not to have an idle hour, or throw away an idle penny. While we employ our time and our property (however small that property may be) to the best advantage, we shall find that a fortune may be made in any situation of life; and that poor man, who once wanted assistance himself may become able to assist and relieve others 5 Industry will make a man a purse, and frugality will find him strings for it, Neither the purse nor nor the strings will cost him any thing. He who has it should only draw the strings as frugality directs and he will be sure always to find an useful penny at the bottom of it the servants of industry are known by their livery; it is always whole and wholesome. Idleness travels very leisurely, and poverty soon overtakes her. look at the ragged Slaves of idleness and judge which is the best master to serve ? Industry or Idleness (continues)
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon
unknown : unknown
'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues] He is not the Wandering jew, nor an old Levite, nor St John, as some people imagine, it seems his generation was in the world before Adam and in the ark with Noah, and with Christ when Condemned to be crucified, The Scripture makes mention of him. He is no imposter He knoweth not his parents, nor ever did Suck the breast of his mother, His beard is the colour of vermillion, and is seldom or ever cut. he goes barefooted like a grey friar, He wears neither hat cap, nor wig. His coat is neither wove, knit spun or made with hands, neither is it silk.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon Print: Advertisement
Hannah Glasse : First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy
A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747. For example: 'To boile a Custard Pudding Take a pint of Cream, out of which take two or three Spoonfulls, and mix with a Spoonful of fine flour, Set the rest to Boil, When it is boiled, take it of, and Stir in the Cold Cream, & flour very well, when it is Cold beat up five yolks & two whites of eggs Stir in a Little Salt and some nutmeg & two or three Spoonfuls of Sack Sweeten to your palate, butter a wooden bowl, & pour it in, tie a Cloth over it & boile it half an hour, when it is enough, untie the Cloth, turn the pudding out into your Dish & pour melted butter over it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon Print: Book
unknown : [Almanac]
West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to _________________________________________________________ Jamaica 140 60 Kingston Great Britain _________________________________________________________ Barbadoes [021] 14 Bridgetown ? _________________________________________________________ St. Christopher 20 7 Basse-terre ? _________________________________________________________ Antigua 20 20 St. John?s ? _________________________________________________________ Nevis and each of them is Plymouth ? Montserrat 18 circumfer (continues. len = length; Brd = breadth)
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon Print: Unknown, set out in a table
unknown : [almanac]
[Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger: ?Mars is situated next above the Earth his course being between the orbit of Jupiter and that of the Earth but very distant from both it is the least of all the planets, Mercury excepted has less lustre than any other star and appears of a dusky red hue Mars is considerably less than the Earth, its diameter, being only 4400, miles his distance from the sun is 129,000,000 of miles and he revolves about the central luminary in 687 days proceeding at the rate of 45,000 miles an hour continues
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon Print: Unknown
Charles Dickens : The Chimes
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844: 'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Dickens wants the earnest good-faith in narration which makes Balzac so enchanting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Alphonse Lamartine : Histoire des Girondins
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Even at the Palace where they read so little they are all devouring those eloquent Volumes -- the Queen & all. I would not have believed that Lamartine's prose could be so fine -- but the prose of poets is often finer than their verse [...] The Author does injustice to Napoleon I think, & is over candid to Robespierre & many of the other Revolutionary Heroes -- so that one wonders sometimes [italics]who[end italics] was guilty -- but still the book is charming.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert : Dix Ans a la cour du roi Louis-Philippe et souvenirs du temps de l'Empire et de la Restauration
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Leon Gozlan : La Queue du chien d'Alcibiade
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Frederic Soulie : Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Unknown
Alexandre Dumas : Les Deux Diane
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Unknown
Alexandre Dumas : Memoires d'un Medecin: Joseph Balsamo
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Unknown
Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet : Le Batard de Mauleon
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Unknown
J. Heneage Jesse : Literary and Historical Memorials of London
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London [sic] -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Charles Saint John : Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins [...] Also I am reading Appert's Dix Ans a la Cour de Louis Philippe, very pleasant esprit -- & have just finished Le Chien d'Alcibiade -- a Tale of some cleverness although too close an imitation of Gerfaut [...] I see by the papers that poor Frederic Soulie is dead -- I was just reading a novel of his on the wars of La Vendee (Saturnine Fichet [sic]) which was interesting -- only he had imitated a likeness between two persons from the old French Story of Martin Guerre, which story aforesaid [...] Dumas had been using in Les Deux Diane -- by the way I am reading 3 series by Dumas, Les Deux Diane -- Les Memoires d'un Medecin & Le Batard de Mouleon [sic] [...] Of English books I have been much pleased by Mr Jesse[']s Antiquities of London [sic] -- very pleasant gossip -- & St John[']s Wild sports of the Highlands a mixed Vol of Deerstalking & Natural History which is charming'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Henry Taylor : Notes From Books, in Four Essays
'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Holland Print: Book
Arthur Helps : Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon
'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Holland Print: Book
Alphonse de Lamartine : La Chute d'un ange
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how often does it happen that the immediate public, looking at the new bad, forgets or is ignorant of the old good! Just this occurred to me in reading Lamartine's dull piece of extravagance, "La Chute d'un Ange." Nothing but your recommendation could have induced me to read another line of his writing. Now, I have gone through "Jocelyn;" and, although I dislike the story -- the heroine in man's clothes, and the hero made a priest, Heaven knows how -- I have yet been delighted with the general feeling and beauty of the poem, particularly with one portion full of toleration, and another about dogs.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Alphonse de Lamartine : Jocelyn
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how often does it happen that the immediate public, looking at the new bad, forgets or is ignorant of the old good! Just this occurred to me in reading Lamartine's dull piece of extravagance, "La Chute d'un Ange." Nothing but your recommendation could have induced me to read another line of his writing. Now, I have gone through "Jocelyn;" and, although I dislike the story -- the heroine in man's clothes, and the hero made a priest, Heaven knows how -- I have yet been delighted with the general feeling and beauty of the poem, particularly with one portion full of toleration, and another about dogs.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Honore de Balzac : Modeste Mignon
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter. I read my French abomination at breakfast & dinner & tea time, .. so as to forget myself & be delighted to find that I have eaten a little more than usual in my trance (deeper than mesmeric) & happy state of physical unconsciousness [...] And your first words [in letter] [...] are still of Mignon, Mignon. It is a decided case of flint to flint -- & of electricity by coincidence. 'Well -- and I am delighted with the book just as you are [...] because charmed beyond the point of pleasure produced by mere artistic power in the writer. The truth is [...] that if I were to write my own autobiography, or rather, (much rather), if Balzac were to write it for me, he could not veritably have made it different from what he has written of Modeste. The ideal life of my youth was just [italics]that[end italics], .. line for line [goes on to comment further on text] [...] And that "satiete par la pensee."! -- [italics]There[end italics], lies the test of the morbidity -- for it is morbid -- it is dangerous! & worse romances than poor Modests's is likely to be (I have only read a third of the book) might come of it [comments further on own and Mitford's responses to text]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Delphine de Girardin : L'Ecole des journalistes
'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a Bruxelles edition with serveral feuilletons about it appended thereunto, especially a letter to the authoress by Jules Janin, one of his best'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Victor Hugo : Odes et Ballades (volume 1)
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 March 1845: 'I have the first volume of Victor Hugo's "Odes et Ballades," but they are slavishly loyal to those vile old Bourbons. What could he see in them? I suppose I shall like the second volume better.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
George Crabbe : Parish Register, The
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter Print: Book
George Crabbe : Tales in Verse
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter Print: Book
George Crabbe : Borough, the
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter Print: Book
[n/a] : Edinburgh Review
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'. [Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter Print: Serial / periodical
unknown : [children's book]
'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mistake. Instead of merely sitting me down in front of Peter Rabbit, The Secret Garden or the Jungle Books and telling me to get on with it, she provided a dreadful book about a Rosy-Faced Family who Lived Next Door and Had Cats that Sat on Mats, and expected me to get on with that. I was outraged – I, who had walked the boards with the Crummles, and fought beside Beowulf in the darkened Hall of Heriot. I took one look, and decided that the best way of making sure that I should never meet the Rosy-Faced Family or any of their unspeakable kind in the future was not to learn to read at all. So I didn’t, and my mother never quite had the hardness of heart to stop reading to me. We had lessons and lessons and lessons; and we got practically nowhere.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff Print: Book
Hans Christian Andersen : Little Match Girl, The
'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular story, but I have a nasty suspicion that it was done as a means of providing light relief for herself, because The Little Match Girl always made me cry.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff Print: Book
Grimm : Fairy Tales
'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. I have no recollection of the actual process; I do not know how or why or when or wherefore the light dawned. I only know that when I went to Miss Beck’s Academy I could not read, and that by the end of my first term, without any apparent transition period, I was reading, without too much trouble, anything that came my way.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff Print: Book
L.M. Montgomery : Emily of New Moon
'And then one day I found a book. It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of consumption – that made a change, to start with - after which she was brought up by strict aunts in an old farmhouse somewhere in Canada. A Canadian story, not an American one; but I barely registered that at the time. What made it so different from other books of its kind I did not know, and I do not really know even now. But for me it was magic. I carried it off and kept it under my pillow or clutched to my bosom at bed-making time, and it seems as though I read it all that summer long, which can scarcely have been the fact; but I think I must have read it through, at first voraciously and then with slow and lingering delight, at least three times on the trot. And it was summer. On fine summer nights the beds remained out on the concrete strip all night, and I used to read, half under the bedclothes to evade Night Nurse’s eagle eye, until the last dregs of the light had drained away [...].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff Print: Book
Henry James : Portrait of a Lady
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also enjoyed. Work here [as Red Cross officer tracing missing soldiers] is quieter again, which leaves me time for reading, and while you were at H. J.'s Portrait of a Lady I was tackling his latter and tougher end in the person of What Maisie Knew. I haven't [italics]quite[end italics] got through her yet, but I think I shall: she is my very limit -- beyond her lies The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors and other impossibles. I don't think James could have helped his later manner -- is [sic] a natural development, not a pose. All that one can understand of him seems so genuine, that what one can't understand is likely to be genuine also.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Laura Mary Forster Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Prisoner of Chillon
'[Alfred Tennyson's] grandmother, the sister of the Reverend Samuel Turner, would assert: "Alfred's poetry all comes from me." My father remembered her reading to him, when a boy, "The Prisoner of Chillon" very tenderly.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Turner Print: Book
John Whitehead : The Life of the Rev John Wesley
'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr Wesley's ancestors and relations, the life of Mr Charles Wesley, (whom I had often heard preach) and a history of Methodism, I requested Mrs L to help me in reading it through. // To describe the conflict, and the difference commotions which passed in my mind while we were reading this excellent work is impossible. I have been instructed, delighted, much confounded, and troubled.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James and Mary Lackington Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect while she remained in Newgate ... Her health was declining when she was liberated, and at her own desire, admission into the St James's Infirmary was procured for her. There she became rapidly worse ... She was reminded that though too weak to read, she might try and recal what she had formerly read; and several times when passages of Scripture were begun, she would take them up, repeating them from memory'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary O'Connor Print: Book
: [newspaper]
'[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the paragraphs about Papa. The L's showed them me on Saturday. You can imagine the excitement I was in on Saturday night, not knowing whether it was true or not'. [this refers to a newspaper report of her father's abandonment of Catholicism]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Newspaper
Matthew Arnold : Essays in Criticism
'[from Mary Arnold, later Ward's diary] "Read Uncle Matt's [Matthew Arnold's] Essay on Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment. Compares the religious feeling of Pompei and Theocritus with the religious feeling of St Francis and the German Reformation. Contrasts the religion of sorrow as he is pleased to call Christianity with the religion of sense, giving to the former for the sake of propriety a slight pre-eminence over the latter". She does not like the famous "Preface" at all. "The 'Preface' is rich and has the fault which the author professes to avoid, that of being amusing. as for the seductiveness of Oxford, its moonlight charms and Romeo and Juliet character, I think Uncle Matt is slightly inclined to ride the high horse whenever he approaches the subject".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Book
: [Latin and German writings about early Spanish literature]
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema de Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Book
: [Spanish poems and chronicles]
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema de Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Book
: El Cantar de Mio Cid
'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema del Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Arnold Print: Book
: New Testament
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called the scheme of Christianity'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
: [French and Spanish books]
'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish books to review in 'The Times', the 'Pall Mall Gazaette' etc] quickly enough. "Three or four volumes of these books a week is about all I can do, and that seems to go no way".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime
'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Othello
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
Joseph Joubert : Pensees
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
Joseph Joubert : Correspondance
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
Horace : Epistles
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
Étienne Pivert de Senancour :
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
Thucydides :
'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thucydides in Godalming one day and was delighted to find it easier than she expected'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward Print: Book
Mark Pattison : Memoirs
'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Mark Pattison : 'Confession of Faith'
'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Manuscript: Unknown
William Gladstone : Gleanings Of Past Years
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
T.H. Green : Witness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay Sermons
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T.H. Green], will you look at his two Lay Sermons, of which I enclose my copy? - particularly the second one, which was written eight years after the first, and to my mind expresses his thought more clearly'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: Gospels
'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice those ideas on the teaching of the Bible which she had striven to inculcate at University Hall. The audience sat on low stools or lay on the floor, while she read to them usually a part of the Gospels, making the scene live again, as only she could make it, not only by her intimate knowledge of the times, but by her gift of presentation. Systematically, making us use our minds to follow her, she would work through a section of St Mark or St Matthew, comparing each with the other, showing the touches of the "later hand", taking us deep into the fascinating intricacies of the Synoptic Problem. [the account continues at length, discussing Mrs Ward's attitudes to various parts of the Bible, later saying] it was impossible to listen to her reading the Walk to Emmaus, or the finding of the empty tomb, without coming under the spell of an emotion as deep as it was austere. For the fact that we in these latter days had outgrown our childhood and must distinguish truth from phantasy was no reason in her mind, why we should renounce the poetic value of scenes and pictures woven into the very fabric of our being'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [books on 18th century Lancashire life]
'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have not improved - if they are not less brutal, less earthy, nearer altogether to the intelligent type of life.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians]
'[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars and [italics] cellae [end italics], their priests' sleeping rooms and dining rooms [in Pompeii], I read this morning St Paul's directions to the Corinthians about meat offered to idols - in fact, the whole first letter - with quite different eyes'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [blue books of statistics]
'[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the East End of London at that time; wading through piles of Blue-books.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [papers on Factory Law]
'[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the same thing foreshadowed in various other things on Factory Law I have been reading.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Unknown
Rudyard Kipling :
'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of which she read them a great deal of Stevenson and Kipling'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Robert Louis Stevenson :
'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of which she read them a great deal of Stevenson and Kipling'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [Catholic literature]
'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Helbeck of Bannisdale"].
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [Catholic literature]
'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house she rented in Kent], giving her that grip of detail in matters of belief or ritual without which she could not have approached her subject [the novel "Helbeck of Bannisdale"], but which she had now learnt to absorb and re-fashion far more skilfully than in the days of "Robert Elsmere".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [Catholic literature]
'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me perceive the enormous intellectual pre-eminence of Newman. Another impression - I know you will forgive me for saying quite frankly what I feel - has been to fill me with a perfect horror of asceticism, or rather of the austerities - or most of them - which are indispensable to the Catholic ideal of a saint. [she discusses this at length, concluding] Don't imagine, dearest, that I find myself in antagonism to all this literature. The truth in many respects is quite the other way. The deep personal piety of good Catholics, and the extent to which their religion enters into their lives, are extraordinarily attractive.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: Civilta Cattolica
'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breathe fire and flame'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Serial / periodical
: Tribuna
'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breathe fire and flame'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Serial / periodical
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand :
'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont :
'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Alfred von Harnack :
'[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, Rome] I said not a word - and came home and read Harnack!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Adolf Julicher : An Introduction to the New Testament
'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Adolf Julicher : An Introduction to the New Testament
'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she presented one day in a moment of enthusiasm, to her younger daughter [the author] (aged seventeen), suggesting that she should translate it into English. The daughter dutifully obeyed, devoting the best part of three years to the task - only to find, when the work was all but finished, that the German professor had in the meantime brought out a new edition of his book, running to some 100 pages of additional matter. Dismay reigned at Stocks, but there was no help for it: the additional 100 pages had to be tackled. In the end Mrs Ward herself seized on the proofs and went all through them, pen in hand; little indeed was left of the daughter's unlucky sentences by the time the process was complete.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Unknown, page proofs
Thomas Arnold : [private papers]
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end italics] nature. Among his papers that have now come to me I have come across the most touching and remarkable things - things that are a revelation even to his children'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Manuscript: Unknown
George Meredith :
'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this latter they both had a feeling akin to adoration, based on a knowledge not only of his novels but of his poems (then not a common accomplishment); and I remember W.T.A. once saying to me that he thought the jolliest line in English poetry was Gentle beasties through pushed a cold long nose'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
George Meredith : Richard Feverel
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
George Meredith : Egoist, The
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
George Meredith : Vittoria
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
George Meredith : Beauchamp's Career
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Herbert Spencer :
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing but the love scenes in "Richard Feverel"; "The Egoist"; and certain passages of description in "Vittoria" and "Beauchamp's Career", he would still stand at the head of English "dichtung" [the quality Mrs Ward thought the prize should reward] There is no critic now who can be ranged with him in position, and no poet. As a man of letters he is easily first; to compare Mr Spencer's power of clear statement with the play of imaginative genius in Meredith would be absurd - in the literary field'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: [newspaper interviews with herself]
'[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof and entirely re-writing what had been put into her mouth'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs
Julia Ward Howe : Reminiscences
'[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who had lately brought out her memoirs. Mrs Ward had been somewhat wickedly amused by certain passages in the latter: "Imagine Mrs Ward Howe declaring in public that a poem of hers, which a critic had declared to be in 'pitiable hexameters' (English of course) was not 'in hexameters at all - it was in pentameters of my own make - I never followed any special school or rule!' - I have been gurgling over that in bed this morning".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
George Bancroft : History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
'[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [end italics] fools! - but really, I rather agree with H.G. Wells that they make too much fuss about it! [separation from Britain]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Emile Faguet : Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward Print: Book
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward Print: Book
Walter Raleigh : Wordsworth
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward Print: Book
Homer :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward Print: Book
Horace :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta ward Print: Book
Euripides :
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Aeschylus : Agamemnon
'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her greatest solace and delight. "For reading, I have been deep in Emile Faguet's "Dix-huitieme siecle", she wrote to Mrs Creighton in August, 1908, "comparing some of the essays in it with Sainte-Beuve, the reactionary with the Liberal; reading Raleigh's Wordsworth, and Homer and Horace as usual. If I could only give three straight months to Greek now I should be able to read most things easily, but I never get time enough - and there are breaks when one forgets what one knew before". Greek literature meant more and more to her as the years went on, and though she could give so little time to it, the half-hour before breakfast which she devoted, with her husband, to Homer, or Euripides, or the "Agamemnon", became gradually more precious to her than any other fraction of the day'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Wlliam James :
'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
George Tyrrell :
'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
Henri Bergson :
'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
William James :
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth of being alive - and before that the Emmaus story and the appearance to the Maries'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
: bible
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth of being alive - and before that the Emmaus story and the appearance to the Maries'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
:
'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from her short nights - for her hours of sleep were rarely more and often less than six - was that the long hours of wakefulness in the early morning gave her time for the reading of many books and of poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner Austin brought some things to my mistress's stall, and asked her to buy them—she said she did not want them—he brought them to me, and I bought two petticoats, four aprons, and four pairs of stockings of him for 95 ... I afterwards read something in the newspaper about the robbery, and went to the office, and gave up the things.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Hatton Print: Newspaper
François Rabelais : [unknown]
'Although Mrs Craigie carried out her "duties" as a Roman Catholic, she took her religion lightly, and from her writings it was easy to read that she did not mind jests about the saints ... She told me that her conversion was entirely due to her reading Rabelais, which at the time I believed literally'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Print: Book
Henri Bergson :
'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R. Smith & Mary Hayward who dwelt particularly on Bergson's views upon Instinct, Intuition & Intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Print: Book
Mary Hayward : [paper on Henri Bergson]
'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R. Smith & Mary Hayward who dwelt particularly on Bergson's views upon Instinct, Intuition & Intelligence.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Manuscript: Unknown
Oliver Wendell Holmes : Poet at the Breakfast Table, The
'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The Autocrat. Mrs Robson a reading from "The Poet at the Bt table" Mrs Evans [ditto marks] from "Elsie Venner" R.H. Robson read a paper dealing with the characters of "The Professor at the Bt table". The paper was illustrated by well selected readings from the book - making a most interesting communication. C.I. Evans read "The Chambered Nautilus" & "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Geoffrey Chaucer : General Prologue
'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evans : the Knight's Tale read by Violet Wallis : Chaucer's Prologue was dealt with in considerable detail & after an introduction by C.I. Evans the following read extracts from this poem: Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Robson, Mrs Evans, Rosamund Wallis, Alfred Rawlings, Howard R. Smith & the Secretary.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Miguel de Cervantes :
'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & readings were given by Mrs Rawlings, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Evans, Mr Robson & Mrs Robson'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Henry Newbolt : Vigil, The
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Rupert Brooke :
'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C.E. Stansfield with readings Clifton Chapel C.I. Evans Vitai Lampada H.M. Wallis A Ballad of John Nicholson A. Rawlings The Vigil Mrs Robson & two songs. Drake's Drum & the Old Superb Mr Unwin. (3) Rupert Brooke a paper by R.H. Robson with readings by Mrs Rawlings Mrs Evans Mrs Robson & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
George Meredith : Egoist, The
'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Richard Feverel. Mrs Robson - The Egoist. C.E. Stansfield introduced us to the poems of Meredith. The evening closed with the reading of [Jerry in another hand] the Juggler by C.I. Evans. This poem came as a pleasant surprise after the more obscure & difficult poems to which we had been introduced & should certainly encorage some of us to dig deeper into his poetical works.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Mary Hayward : [paper on life of Lewis Carroll]
'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak gently. Mary Hayward. Readings by S.A. Reynolds, C.E. Stansfield, The Rawlings & Unwin families.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Manuscript: Unknown
Mark Twain :
'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his works were given by Mrs W.H. Smith. Mrs Evans. Miss Mary Hayward. Mr Robson. Mr Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Print: Book
Herbert George Wells : [novels]
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Print: Book
Herbert George Wells : [extracts from novels]
'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would be 'A Critique of the Wells Method in Story-writing'. This was certainly one of the ablest papers which H.M.W. has contributed to the Book Club in recent years and gave rise to interesting discussion. R.H. Robson read one of the short stories to illustrate this side of Wells's literary works. Mrs Smith read a paper upon Mankind in the Making and Mary Hayward dealt with the novels, showing by extracts his views upon the English middle class, marriage, social life & religion.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Print: Book
Mary Hayward : [paper on the sub-conscious]
'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief introductory paper, giving some indication of the way in which the subject had come under his notice, and one or two general fundamental points which he was prepared to accept. This was followed by a paper dealing with the sub-conscious mind by Mary Hayward. The very great importance of the subconscious - the way in which we can use it to free our minds of worry - the relationship between mind & mind or telepathy were clearly brought out. Then Mrs Smith read a paper which gave a deeper note to the subject. She dealt with communications from the spirit world with living people - giving personal experiences & experiences of her friends'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Manuscript: Unknown
Honore de Balzac : Pere Goriot
'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild Asses Skin. A general discussion on the novel & the author followed and Mrs Unwin read some extracts from an article upon Balzac published some few years ago in 'Everyman'. [these extracts, summarising Balzac's career are quoted at length] Mrs Robson read from 'Le Pere Goriot' 'Old Goriot' Rosamund Wallis read 'Christ in Flanders' with its fine description of a ferryboat in a storm & the mysterious stranger who lead [sic] those who had faith walking over the waters to safety when the boat capsized'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
John Keats :
'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main influences & friendships of his short life were well brought out. H.M. Wallis folowed with an appreciation written in the delightful style of which our Friend is so great a master & a reading of the Grecian Urn ode by Miss Marriage completed the first part of the programme. On our return from physical refreshment Charles I. Evans described the Poems of 1820 and some readings were given by Mrs Evans, Mrs Robson & C.E. Stansfield.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Richard Jefferies : Story of my Heart, The
'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence it is probably true that this was an essay drawn from real life rather than from any book read. It was a magnificent literary effort in the author's best style. Perhaps more of 'H.M.W.' than 'Ashton Hillier'. Mrs Smith read a paper upon 'The Garden of Survival' a book by Alg. Blackwood. The paper gave rise to much interest. The extraordinary beauty of the extracts read from the book and the insight into the spiritual meaning of 'Guidance' displayed by the author impressed us all. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper on 'The End of a Chapter' by Shane Leslie - this paper was written by H.M. Wallis & introduced most of us to a new writer of power. The change in the world, in the balance of the classes & their future importance formed the theme of the book. Mary Hayward described her discovery of 'The Story of my Heart' by Richard Jefferies & read some extracts from it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Print: Book
James Boswell : Life of Samuel Johnson
Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831): 'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read it many more. It is the most amusing book in the world [...] I do not see, in your list of authors whose anecdotes are extracted, the name of Mrs. D'Arblay; her account of Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Thrale, &c., in her "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," are highly interesting and valuable [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Frances Burney : 'Memoirs of Dr Burney'
Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831): 'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read it many more. It is the most amusing book in the world [...] I do not see, in your list of authors whose anecdotes are extracted, the name of Mrs. D'Arblay; her account of Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Thrale, &c., in her "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," are highly interesting and valuable [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 1)
Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830: 'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read, since I got "Lord Byron's Life." I have no pretensions to being a critic, yet I know infinitely well what pleases me. Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy [italics]tact[end italics] displayed by Mr. Moore, which distinguish the book, I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece, and on his return. There is strength and richness, as well as sweetness. 'The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same to you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is [italics]our[end italics] Lord Byron -- the fascinating, faulty, philosophical being [...] I live with him in these pages -- getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful tone of his conversation and manners. 'His own letters and journals mirror him as he was, and are invaluable. There is something cruelly kind in this first volume. When will the next come? [...] Among its many other virtues, this book is accurate to a miracle. I have not stumbled upon one mistake with regard either to time, place, or feeling.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 1)
Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron." In my opinion, it is very superior to the first; there is less repetition of the letters; they are better written, abound more in criticism and observation, and make the reader better acquainted with Lord Byron's principles and character. His morality was certainly more suited to the meridian of Italy than England; but with all his faults there is a charm about him that excites the deepest interest and admiration [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Somerville Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Life of Byron (vol 2)
Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron." In my opinion, it is very superior to the first; there is less repetition of the letters; they are better written, abound more in criticism and observation, and make the reader better acquainted with Lord Byron's principles and character. His morality was certainly more suited to the meridian of Italy than England; but with all his faults there is a charm about him that excites the deepest interest and admiration [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Somerville Print: Book
Miss Cole : [paper on life of Fanny Burney]
'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dealing wih the main features of her life. We then had a number of reading [sic] from her works & diary by Miss Stevens, Mrs Unwin, Miss Cole, R.H. Robson, H.R. Smith, E.E. Unwin. To Miss Cole was due the success of the evening. She selected the readings & in most cases copied them out for the different readers. They were well selected & gave an interesting glimpse into the kind of life lived by Fanny Burney at Court as a Lady in Waiting'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Manuscript: Unknown
Samuel Pepys : Diary
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job. Readings from the diary were given by Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire" Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys E.E. Unwin on "The Plague" & R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Mary Hayward : [paper on ballads]
'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ballad is or was & is not. [this is summarised at length] The programme was divided into six parts dealing with the six main varieties of ballads. Some of these ballads were read & others were sung. Part 1. dealing with Magic Song The Two Musicians Mr & Mrs Unwin Reading The Demon Lover Mr Rawlings [ditto] Thomas the Rhymer Miss R Wallis Part 2. Stories of Romance Song Lord Rendel The Book Club Reading Edward Edward (Binnorie) R.B Graham Instead of Binnorie we were favoured by a rendering of a Berkshire version of this story by Mr Graham. In fact he broke forth into song & was assisted in the chorus refrain by the whole Club who sang with differing emphasis "And I'll be true to my love - if my love'll be true to me". part 3. Romance Shading into History reading Sir Patrick Spens Mr R.H. Robson [ditto] Bonnie house of Airly [sic] Mr H.R. Smith Part 4. Greenwood & Robin Hood Reading Nut Brown Maid Mr & Mrs Evans [ditto] Death of Robin Hood Mr Rawlings H.M. Wallis read at this stage an interesting paper upon the subject [contents summarised] Part 5. Later History Reading Battle of Otterburn Miss Marriage [ditto] Helen of Kirconnel H.M. Wallis Part 6. Showing gradual decline Song Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mrs Robson Reading Undaunted Mary Mrs Rawlings Song Mowing the Barley All Song The Wealthy Farmer's Son Mr & Mrs Unwin'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Manuscript: Unknown
Leslie Stephen : [account of climbing the Zinal Rothorn]
'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated snapshots illustrating this reading & his own climb of the same mountain. After supper R.B. Graham gave a general chat on Mountaineering with views. A passage by Whymper on accidents was summarised by A. Rawlings who then read Whymper's account of an extraordinary accident he himself sustained. To conclude the Secretary read a parody of Wadsworth [Wordsworth?] 'We are Seven' composed by H.m. Wallis on climbing at Arolla'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Print: Book
Alexander Pope : Lines to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story of melancholy import never failed to arrest my attention, and, before I was seven years old, I could correctly repeat Pope's Lines ot the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Mason's Elegy on the Death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry; and many smaller poems on similar subjects.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Darby Print: Book
Mason : Elegy upon the death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry
'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story of melancholy import never failed to arrest my attention, and, before I was seven years old, I could correctly repeat Pope's Lines ot the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Mason's Elegy on the Death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry; and many smaller poems on similar subjects.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Darby Print: Book
:
'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington frequently read to me after school hours, and I to her: I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses; and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Darby Print: Book
Anna Laetitia Aikin : Poems
'[Lord Lyttleton] presented me with the works of Miss Aikin (now Mrs Barbauld). I read them with rapture; I thought them the most beautiful Poems I had ever seen, and considered the woman who could invent such poetry, as the most to be envied of human creatures.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robinson Print: Book
Sabine Baring-Gould : Broom Squire, The
'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Baring Gould's work from which we learn that he wrote too fast for revision and his fiction was marred by many improbabilities. In short a maker of books rather than an artist. After supper Mrs Pollard read from The Broom Squire and E.A. Smith gave us an appreciation of our Author more favourable than H.M.W.'s perhaps because it dealt mainly with the archaeological side of his work. F.G. Pollard kindly took C.I. Evans' place (he had lost his voice) by reading from "Strange Survivals & Supersititions" & H.R. Smith read from "The Vicar of Morwenstow".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Mark Rutherford [pseud.] : Revolution in Tanner's Lane, The
'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations student for Ministry School Master & Publisher's Assistant before settling down as an Author and Admiralty Official. In style he is simple & effective in manner he reminds sometimes of Hardy or Gissing. Three of his novels are semi-biographical & have the interest that attaches to a truthful diary. The rest of the evening was devoted to Readings designed to give us an insight into different aspects of his work. We gathered that although his plots were poor & scrappy his characters were vivid & intensely living. The readings were as followed. R.B. Graham & F.E. Pollard from Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mrs Evans A Series of Character Sketches Mrs Robson Revolution in Tanners Lane Mrs Reynolds Catherine [sic] Furze Mrs Burrow Mark Rutherfords Deliverance.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Herman Melville : Typee
'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Typee. After supper R.B. Graham C.I. Evans K.S. Evans Geo Burrow & H.R. Smith gave readings from Moby Dick giving us glimpses of the power & wonder of this work of genius.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Hugh Walpole : Fortitude
'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from "The Secret City". After supper the Secretary attempted some analysis & estimate of Walpoles work which was followed by some discussion. Mr Stansfield read from "Jeremy" & in conclusion Mr Robson read from "The Cathedral". An interesting evening about work which both attracts & repels. The man perhaps just missing greatness but frequently gripping us by powerful intriguing work.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Hugh Walpole : Secret City, The
'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from "The Secret City". After supper the Secretary attempted some analysis & estimate of Walpoles work which was followed by some discussion. Mr Stansfield read from "Jeremy" & in conclusion Mr Robson read from "The Cathedral". An interesting evening about work which both attracts & repels. The man perhaps just missing greatness but frequently gripping us by powerful intriguing work.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Charles Reade : Christie Johnson
'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard read from Christie Johnson of a thrilling rescue from drowning. F.E. Pollard spoke of the characteristics of Reades work. Following & arising from his remarks a lively discussion arose on Art & Propaganda & the artists right to exaggerate and T.C. Elliott read a vivid & amusing scene from "the Cloister & the Hearth". C.I. Evans also read from "Hard Cash".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
W. Watson : 'Lakeland'
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds" D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers" C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy G. Burrow poems by his brother F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland" C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Michael Drayton : 'The Daffodil'
'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under the Rain" Miss D. Brain gave us an essay on Hampton Court gardens & their history. F.E. Pollard a song Summer Afternoon Rosamund Wallis read from Sir Wm Temple on Gardens Mrs F. E. Pollard read Michael Drayton's Daffodil Alfred Rawlings charmed us by showing a series of his Water Colour drawings "Gardens I have Known" Mrs Robson sang two songs June Rapture & Unfolding After supper Mrs Stansfield read a paper by Mr Stansfield who was prevented by a severe cold from being present on Gardening in which he showed how Gardening is one of the fine Arts in fact the noblest of the plastic Arts F. E. Pollard sang Andrew Marvell's "Thoughts in a Garden" Mrs Burrow read Walter de la Mare's Sunken Garden Mrs Stansfield read from The Story of my Ruin and in a concluding reading Geo Burrow brought our minds back to the Garden of Eden'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Leo Tolstoy : Master and Man
'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". R. B. Graham gave an account of "Anna Karenina" with some short readings. After Refreshments Mrs Robson read a parable from "Master & Man" & Geo Burrow read from "The Cossacks". F. E. pollard read an essay of Tolstoy on the Russian Famine. Some general discussion of Tolstoy & his work but more especially of the man himself closed the evening'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Voltaire [pseud.] : Zadig
'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale from Zadig. After refreshments F. E. Pollard gave us an idea of Voltaire's thought & influence Mrs Evans read from Letters From England & Mrs T. C. Eliott gave us some conception of his place in French literature some discussion closing an interesting evening.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
Edward Young : Night Thoughts
Mary Delany to Samuel Richardson, 16 August 1751: 'I am now reading Dr Young's Night Thoughts, and can hardly forbear sending him a rapture of thanks for the entertainment and delight they give me, and above all for raising my mind so much above [italics]This poor terrestrial citadel of man[end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Delany Print: Book
William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved
[...]
4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard
William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved
[...]
4 The Most Part of the Tempest was then read the Play being cast as follows.
Alonso King of Naples Mrs Stansfield.
Sebastian, his brother Miss Brain.
Prsopero [sic], the right Duke of Milan Mr Stansfield.
Antonio, his brother, usurping Duke of Milan Mr Elliott.
Ferdinand, son to King of Naples Mr Reynolds.
Gonzalo, honest old Counsellor Mr Rawlings.
Adrian, a Lord Mrs Pollard
Caliban, a savage and deformed slave Mr Pollard.
Trinculo, a Jester Mr Smith.
Stephano, a Drunken Butler Mr Robson
Miranda, daughter to Prospero Miss Bowman Smith
Ariel, an airy Spirit Miss Wallis
Mrs Rawlings read the stage directions
Mrs [or Mr.?] Robson sang some of Ariel’s songs.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice (Mr Collins proposes)
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved
[...]
[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.
After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the
Ages[:]
Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith
Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Print: Book
Lewis Carroll : The Lobster Quadrille, from Alice in Wonderland
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved
[...]
[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.
After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the
Ages[:]
Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith
Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Reynolds
John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Print: Book
John Galsworthy : The Roof
Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
[...]
7. John Galsworthys “The Roof” was then read in parts
Gustave C.E. Stanfield
Hon R Fanning R. H. Robson
Major Moultenay H. M. Wallis
Baker H. R. Smith
Brice T. C. Elliott
Mr Beeton S. A. Reynolds
Mrs Beeton E. B. Smith
H. Lennox Geo Burrow
Evelyn Lennox Celia Burrow
Diana D. Brain
Brye J. Rawlings
A Nurse R. Wallis
A Young Man F. E. Pollard
A Young Woman Mrs Pollard
Froba Mrs Robson
Two Pompiers Thomas C. Elliott
Miss Stevens read the stage directions
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
John Masefield : Philip the King
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield was then taken
Geo Burrow gave some account of his life
Mrs Burrow read 2 poems "Beauty" & "Posted Missing"
H. M. Wallis read from the novel Sard Harker a thrilling account of an escape from a bog.
Violet Clough read from "Midsummer Night".
After refreshments "Phillip the King" was read in parts & much enjoyed the parts being taken as
opposite.
King Phillip C. B. Castle
His Daughter the Infanta Mrs Castle
Various Ghosts Mrs Pollard
The Captain H.R. Smith
De Leyva S.A. Reynolds
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard
Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell :
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced by George Burrow who read spicy biographical extracts from Who's Who about the father Sir George Reresby, the sister Edith, and the brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. [...] Relieved by this happy if unexpected dénouement we settled ourselves in renewed confidence to listen to readings from the poetry of Edith. Alfred Rawlings read us parts of Sleeping Beauty & Celia Burrow the story of Perrine. Then for the work of Osbert and Sacheverell. H. M. Wallis gave us an amusing & tantalising paper entitled "Southern Baroque Art". This was followed by further reading from Mary Pollard, Alfred Rawlings, Charles Stansfield, & George Burrow.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard
Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.
[...]
7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:
Philinte Charles Stansfield
Alceste Frank Pollard
Oronte George Burrow
Célimène Rosamund Wallis
Basque Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre Edgar Castle
Acaste Henry M. Wallis
A Guard Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé] Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Molière [pseud.] : The Misanthrope
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6. Victor Alexander then gave an outline of the career of Molière, & a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France.
[...]
7. There followed a reading of the Misanthrope - abridged - in translation. The parts were taken as follows:
Philinte Charles Stansfield
Alceste Frank Pollard
Oronte George Burrow
Célimène Rosamund Wallis
Basque Sylvanus Reynolds
Eliante Mary S. W. Pollard
Clitandre Edgar Castle
Acaste Henry M. Wallis
A Guard Victor Alexander
Arsinoë [Arsinoé] Mary E. Robson
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Print: Book
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.
[...]
8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.
9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.
10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].
11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]
12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.
13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.
14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander
15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.
16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Sorrows of Young Werther
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.
[...]
8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.
9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.
10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].
11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]
12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.
13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.
14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander
15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.
16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Print: Book
Mary. E Robson : [a description of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther]
Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed some amplification, & Charles Stansfield was asked to do this. His more than kind amplification is appended.
[...]
8. After adjournment for supper, the Goethe evening was begun by Mary E Robson. She sang the song "Knowst thou the land". The music is by Beethoven. In this and her other songs Mary Robson was kindly accompanied by Caroline Pollard.
9. A Reading from Goethe was next given by Mary S. W. Pollard.
10. Reginald H. Robson read a paper on the life of Goethe. If there were any who had thought of Goethe exclusively as a poet, they must have been amazed at his vesitality. Philosopher, poet, statesman, scientist, he seems to have been "everything by turns and nothing long", except indeed a lover [...].
11. We had been much intrigued with Mrs Robson's description of the Sorrows of Werther, especially when our friend warned us that those who came under the spell of this book usually commited suicide after reading it. We felt accordingly grateful to Mrs. Robson who had read it on our behalf, and flirted with death for our sakes, and not a little apprehensive when Janet Rawlings read us an extract from it. All passed off well, however. [...]
12. George Burrow read a song from Goethe's Gefunden.
13. Mary Robson sang "My peace is o'er" from Faust.
14. A Reading from the same play was given by Elisabeth & Victor Alexander
15. Another song "Little wild rose, wild rose red." was sung by Mary Robson.
16. Finally Charles E. Stansfield gave us his paper on Goethe. He referred to the lack of the political sense in the German people of those days, & showed Goethe as quite content to acquiesce in the paternal government of his small state. He described the influence of Herde[,] Klopstock, Lessing, Shakespeare, &, quaintly enough, of Goldsmith on Goethe. In speaking of the poet's scientific interests he told us of his discovery of the intermaxillary bone & of Goethe's ceaseless efforts to acquire truth.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Manuscript: Unknown
Charles E. Stansfield : [Safety First]
Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
5. Eight anonymous essays were then read. In some of these the subject treated or the style of the author made recognition comparatively easy, but others were provocative of much ingenious speculation. A paper on English Justice proved to be the most discussed during the interval. Rival tipsters gave in confidence the names of Mrs. Stansfield & Robert Pollard as the author, one of them purporting to recognize - or coming perilously close to so doing - Mrs. Stansfield’s opinion of her fellow magistrates, while the other detected just that ingenious combination of Fascism and Bolshevism that Robert Pollard would enjoy putting up for the Club’s mystification. Further conflicting theories attributed the authorship to Henry Marriage Wallis or Howard Smith, & this last proved correct[....]
Another essay which stirred debate told of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour. It was told with that precision of detail that marks either the experienced writer of fiction or the worshipper of truth. And as if to darken counsel there was an open allusion to Bordighera. Suspicious though we were, & in spite of every appearance of our being right, we adhered to the view that the author must be H. M. Wallis.
Time & space do not allow adequate record of all the papers, but it must be mentioned that three of the eight came from the Rawlings family: a thoughtful essay by Alfred Rawlings needed a second reading if it were to be seriously discussed, some interesting reminiscences by Helen Rawlings made very good hearing, & Moroccan memories by Janet helped to make a most varied programme.
Other essays were "Safety First" by Charles E. Stansfield, and "The English - are they modest? " by Edgar Castle, both of which added some humorous touches to the evening.
A list of essayists, & their readers, follows.
Mrs Castle read a paper by Alfred Rawlings
Janet Rawlings read a paper by Helen Rawlings
Charles Stansfield read a paper by Henry M. Wallis
Reginald Robson read a paper by Howard Smith
George Burrow read a paper by Reginald Robson
Alfred Rawlings read a paper by Edgar Castle
Howard Smith read a paper by Janet Rawlings
Mrs Pollard read a paper by Charles E. Stansfield.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Manuscript: Unknown
Mary Russell Mitford : 'The Gypsy', from Our Village
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of last read and approved
2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee
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4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.
Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.
C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.
H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"
F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"
M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"
Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.
E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Walter Russell Brain : Spoonbill
Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dissident.
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5. We then proceeded to the anonymous essays and members felt on excellent terms with themselves at the prospect of hearing some attractive reading and of eluding or inflicting a good hoax or two.
The first essay opened discreetly without title on the theme of “Newcomers to Reading”, going on to a description of the neighbourhood, its beauties its quaint place names and historical associations. […]
6. Next came a paper on “Uniforms”. The writer was considered by one or two to show the observation of the masculine mind and the style of the feminine. […]
7. Then came a letter to "My dear Twelve" written with the unmistakeable touch of the practised writer. […]
8. We listened, too, with equal interest to a paper called “Canaries”, telling us something of the progress and perambulations of our latest migrant members. Moreover two or three of our number were able to follow their doings with particular appreciation, having mad much the same trip themselves. […]
9. All of us were a good deal non plussed by “Hors d’Oeuvres”, an essay not inappropriately named, for it contained a perplexing mixture of fare, and certainly stimulated our appetite. […]
10. Hardly less difficult was “Glastonbury”. Many of us had visited it, and so were able to follow closely the author’s points. But few of us knew enough of its history and legend to be sure whether or no our one professional historian had set his wits before us. So we gave up reasoning and just guessed. […]
11. Finally we heard “Spoonbill”. It was a noteworthy paper, combining the love of the naturalist for the birds he watches with the craft of the writer in the language he uses. […]
12. Here is the complete list. —
“Newcomers to Reading” by H. R. Smith, read by F. E. Pollard
“Uniforms” by Janet Rawlings, read by Elizabeth Alexander
“My dear Twelve” by H. M. Wallis, read by S. A. Reynolds
“Canaries” by C. E. Stansfield, read by Dorothy Brain
“Hors d’Oeuvres” by Dorothy Brain, read by R. H. Robson
“Glastonbury” by Mrs Goadby, read by H. R. Smith
“The Spoonbill” by W. Russell Brain, read by Mrs. Robson
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Manuscript: Unknown
Percy Corder : The Life of Robert Spence Watson
Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the secretary.
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4. Howard R. Smith told us of Morris’s life. The meeting gasped with unanimity and amazement to learn that he (Morris i.e.) had read all the Waverley novels by the age of seven; we gathered that the background of his life had been a blend of Epping Forest & shares in a coppermine, and that his appearance accounted for his lifelong nickname of Topsy. Of his friendships, his labours to restore beauty to Victorian homes, to prevent vandals from restoring cathedrals & other ancient monuments, his Kelmscott Press, his poems & prose romances, his turning to Socialism as the only way to a society in which men would find happiness in sound and beautiful work – of all these things and many more which made up his extraordinarily full and fruitful life, it is impossible to make a summary.
5. Mary S. W. Pollard read a short extract from Percy Corder’s life of Robert Spence Watson telling of a visit of Wm Morris to Bensham Grove. Members afterwards inspected his signature in the Visitors’ book.
6. Ethel C. Stevens read an interesting account of Kelmscott Manor, revealing other sides of this vigorous and many sided personality.
7. R. H. Robson gathered together the artistic & socialist aspects of Morris’s work, emphasised the greatness of the man, & read extracts from MacKail’s Biography. It was clear that Morris would wish to cancel out the last four hundred years & start again on different lines. Time was wanting to reveal all the varieties of opinion that this might have elicited, & we parted in united awe at the mans capacity for work, & his important contributions to our life & ideals.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved
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6. V. W. Alexander read a paper on Jane Austen, half biographical sketch & half an appreciation of her style.
7. F. E. Pollard quoted from Lucy Harrison’s Literary Papers some telling and illuminating remarks, particularly about Fanny Price in Mansfield Park
8. Readings were then given
from Northanger Abbey by Celia Burrows
from Persuasion by Rosamund Wallis
from Sense and Sensibility by Francis & Mary Pollard
from Love and Friendship by Elizabeth Alexander
from Pride and Prejudice by Victor Alexander
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved
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4. Charles Stansfield then read a biographical sketch of Shelley, followed by an estimate of Shelley’s views and character.
5. Readings were then given by the following
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Mary Pollard
Prometheus Unbound by Reginald Robson
Ode to the West Wind by Elizabeth Alexander
Adonaïs by Victor Alexander.
These were all discussed; and a further short reading, from William Watson’s poetry, was given by Alfred Rawlings.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard
: First Book of Samuel, chapter 28 [The Witch of Endor]
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved
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7. The Meeting then gave its attention to Witches.
H. M Wallis led off with a paper on Witchcraft and readings were given from the following
books:- MacBeth – The Witch Scene[?] by Janet Rawlings, Dorothy Brain, & Dorothea Taylor
with F. E. Pollard & V. W. Alexander as Banquo & MacBeth
Samuel – The Witch of Endor scene by Mary Robson
Westward Ho (Lucy), by Dorothy Brain
Trials for Witchcraft, by Howard Smith
Precious Bane, by Rosamund Wallis
Between all these items there was considerable discussion. Members were able to vie with one another in tale of mystery and eerie happenings, and if all the conversation was not strictly relevant at least the interest did not flag.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary E. Robson Print: Book
Ivan Bunin : The Village
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
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6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who
had recently been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature. In the interests of truth it should
perhaps be mentioned that the reading from French and Russian authors were given from English
translations.
R. H. Robson read from Dodsworth by Sinclair S. Lewis
Mary S. W. Pollard [read from] The Village [by] Ivan Bunin
L. Dorothea Taylor [read from] All God’s Chillun Got Wings [by] Eugene E. O'Neill
H. R. Smith [read from] Les Thibault by Roger M. du Gard
S. A Reynolds [read from] White Monkey [by] J. Galsworthy
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
George William Russell : Gandhi
Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
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6. C. E. Stansfield opened the proceedings on Æ [A-E ligature, the name adopted by George William Russell] by a detailed biographical sketch of some length, in the course of which we gained some idea of the contradictions and complexities of A. E.’s character. [...] An interesting personal touch was added to the sketch by F. E. Pollard who had been present at one of Æ’s “salon” receptions.
7. Extracts from A. E’s prose were then read by Mary S. W. Pollard on “Gandhi,” and by F. E. Pollard on “The one dimensional mind”.
8. Finally F. E. Pollard and V. W. Alexander read three of A.E.’s poems.
9. By this time most of us were more than ready for a little lighter matter, and we thoroughly appreciated some delightful touches from The Tinker’s Wedding by Synge which Rosamund Wallis gave with evident relish.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Pollard Print: Book
A. W. Lawrence : Lawrence by his Friends
February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”
Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved
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4. The first reading came from Reginald Robson who gave us an amusing extract from “Beasts & Superbeasts” by H. H. Munro
5. Mary S. Stansfield read from “Lawrence by his Friends” some interesting impressions contributed by some of these friends to a book edited by Lawrence’s brother. One passage by a man who knew Lawrence as a fellow aircraftman gave us a picture of him as a thoroughly likeable and popular hero, admired for his prowess as a motorcyclist.
6. Howard L. Sikes then read from Africa View by Julian Huxley. The passage concerned the respective advantages of Indirect and Direct Rule[...]. This reading produced considerable discussion on the same questions, and spread over on to the attitude of the French and the British toward their African dependant peoples, and members found something to ask or to say about almost every corner of Africa[...].
7. Elizabeth T. Alexander followed with an entertaining reading from Halliday Sutherland’s “A time to keep”. We shall carry in our minds for some time the dramatic appearance of Red William in his nightshirt urging the ladies in evening dress to run for their lives.
8. Roger Moore gave us some excellent fun in his reading from Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Autobiography, and we made some discoveries about Charles Lamb and Wordsworth too.
9. F. E. Pollard, greatly daring, then read from the “Comments of Bagshott” [sic] some shrewd remarks about the male and female of the human species[...].
10. H. R. Smith completed the programme with some well chosen paragraphs from “Those English” by Carl [i.e. Curt] von Stutterheim.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary S. Stansfield Print: Book
George Bernard Shaw : Preface to John Bull’s Other Island
Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
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4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls
