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Margaret Emily Gaskell
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John Ruskin : Seven Lamps of Architecture, The
'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the last instance'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
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'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which piety & virtue live) are keeping pace, as they should do - She works away at German & Greek - reads carefully many books, - with a fineness of perception & relish which delights me...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
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'I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley : Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
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'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books she [is] wanting to read than she can get through, being a very slow reader.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
Henrietta Jenkin : Cousin Stella
'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
John Tyndall : Glaciers of the Alps, The
'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
John Ruskin : Modern Painters
'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yesterday morning. I beg to enclose a Post Office Order for the amount.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Rime of the Ancient mariner, The
'[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, - for each figure was motionless and bright, & the smooth current bore them past so noiselessly & still.'
